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Good Girl
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ISBN10: 0593731131
ISBN13: 9780593731130
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.55
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.11 Depth: 7.91
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593731130
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.55
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.11 Depth: 7.91
Language: English
An exhilarating debut novel (R.O. Kwon, The New York Times Book Review) about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery--a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can't escape its history A girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can't get out.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION - FINALIST FOR THE EDMUND WHITE AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION AND THE VERMONT BOOK AWARD - LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD AND THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE - A BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, Elle, Electric Lit, The Skinny
A no-bullsh*t, must-read debut.--Kaveh Akbar
Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul.--Raven Leilani
Aber writes with . . . masterful precision.--Leila Lalami, The Atlantic Once in a blue moon a debut novel comes along, announcing a voice quite unlike any other, with a layered story and sentences that crackle and pop, begging to be read aloud. Aria Aber's splendid Good Girl introduces just such a voice . . . Aber, an award-winning poet, strikes gold here, much like Kaveh Akbar did in last year's acclaimed Martyr!--Los Angeles Times In Berlin's artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist. Then in the haze of Berlin's legendary nightlife, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer whose fading literary celebrity opens her eyes to a life of personal and artistic freedom. But as Nila finds herself pulled further into Marlowe's controlling orbit, ugly, barely submerged racial tensions begin to roil Germany--and Nila's family and community. After a year of running from her future, Nila stops to ask herself the most important question: Who does she want to be? A story of love and family, raves and Kafka, staying up all night and surviving the mistakes of youth, Good Girl is the virtuosic debut novel by a celebrated young poet and, now, a major new voice in fiction.
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