Wholesale Vintage Contemporaries : Dan Kois

Dan Kois Paperback FICTION/Women ### A stunning and spectacularly enjoyable debut about coming of age in New York City—the joys of unexpected life-altering friendships, the power of finding ourselves in the moment, and the importance of forgiving ourselves when we inevitably mess everything up.“What makes this masterful debut sing is Dan Kois’s dazzling excavation of the human heart and all its contradictions, mystery, and beauty. Smart, laugh-out-loud funny, and consistently surprising, this novel is a gem.”—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest and Good Company ### It’s 1991. Em moved to New York for excitement and possibility, but the big city isn’t quite what she thought it would be. Working as a literary agent’s assistant, she’s down to her last nineteen dollars but has made two close friends: Emily, a firebrand theater director living in a Lower East Side squat, and Lucy, a middle-aged novelist and single mom. Em’s life revolves around these two very different women and their disparate yet equally assured views of art and the world. But who is Em, and what does she want to become?It’s 2005. Em is now Emily, a successful book editor, happily married, and barely coping with the challenges of a new baby. And suddenly Lucy and Emily return to her life: her old friend Lucy’s posthumous book needs a publisher, and her ex-friend Emily wants to rekindle their relationship. As they did once before, these two women—one dead, one very alive—force Emily to reckon with her decisions, her failures, and the kind of creative life she wants to lead.