The Falconer

<b>An iBooks Book of the Year 2019, 'Our favourite debut ... a glorious, empowering, coming of age NY story.'</b><br><b></b><br><b>'An electric debut' <i>New York Times </i></b><br><b><i></i>'Exhilarating' Claire Messud </b><br><b>'Deeply affecting' Salman Rushdie</b><br><br>Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. Lucy's inner life is a contradiction. She's by turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed and, despite herself, is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy, son of a prominent New York family who is trying to resist his upper crust fate.<br><br>As Lucy questions accepted notions of success, bristling against her own hunger for male approval, she is drawn into the world of a pair of provocative female artists living in what remains of New York's bohemia. <br><br>In her hit US debut, Dana Czapnik memorably captures the voice of a young woman in the first flush of freedom searching for an authentic way to live and love.