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THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY
THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY is a story about outcasts and outliers, burgeoning sexuality and secret societies. Feisty freshman Iris Dupont is on a mission to become the youngest editor in chief in the history of her high school student paper.
Set in an elite prep school in New England, it begins when sixteen year old Lily Morgan, set apart from her peers by her unusual pigmentation and the fact that she's the headmaster's daughter, attends the funeral of her boyfriend, Justin Kaplan. Justin's mother is thrilled to see her there-- after all, it was Lily who saved her son from a life of perpetual loneliness-- but Justin's twin brother Jonah and his best friend Hazel are less pleased by her presence.
Lily finds them ransacking Justin's room, looking for clues into what distracted him the night he crashed his car into the tree outside Lily's house. Was it the strange symbol painted on the street, or was it suicide?
Twelve years later, feisty freshman Iris Dupont is on a mission to become the youngest editor-in-chief in the history of Mariana's student paper, The Oracle. But when her research leads her to the lair of the secret society that runs the school, she discovers that one of her teachers may not be who he claims to be, and threatens to dredge up the long buried secret behind Justin Kaplan's death.
Described by Gary Shteyngart as Special Topics in Calamity Physics meets Portnoy's Complaint for girls, THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY is a debut novel that will appeal to fans of Prep and The Secret History, but with a whole new twist. It's the debut novel by Jennifer Miller whose first book, Inheriting the Holy Land:An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East met with great critical acclaim when it was published by Ballantine in 2005.
Jennifer Miller holds an undergraduate degree from Brown and graduate degrees in journalism and fiction from Columbia. Her work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Marie Claire, the Christian Science Monitor, the DailyBeast.com, Salon.com, and others. A Washington, D.C. native, she now lives in Brooklyn.
Lily finds them ransacking Justin's room, looking for clues into what distracted him the night he crashed his car into the tree outside Lily's house. Was it the strange symbol painted on the street, or was it suicide?
Twelve years later, feisty freshman Iris Dupont is on a mission to become the youngest editor-in-chief in the history of Mariana's student paper, The Oracle. But when her research leads her to the lair of the secret society that runs the school, she discovers that one of her teachers may not be who he claims to be, and threatens to dredge up the long buried secret behind Justin Kaplan's death.
Described by Gary Shteyngart as Special Topics in Calamity Physics meets Portnoy's Complaint for girls, THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY is a debut novel that will appeal to fans of Prep and The Secret History, but with a whole new twist. It's the debut novel by Jennifer Miller whose first book, Inheriting the Holy Land:An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East met with great critical acclaim when it was published by Ballantine in 2005.
Jennifer Miller holds an undergraduate degree from Brown and graduate degrees in journalism and fiction from Columbia. Her work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Marie Claire, the Christian Science Monitor, the DailyBeast.com, Salon.com, and others. A Washington, D.C. native, she now lives in Brooklyn.
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Published 2012-05-01 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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Published 2012-05-01 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |