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What a Time to Be Alive

What a Time to Be Alive

Mustard, Jenny

Hardcover

RomanceGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 1639369813
ISBN13: 9781639369812
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: Oct 7 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
A fresh, sensual coming of age story by a dazzlingly talented young novelist, for fans of Sally Rooney and Mieko Kawakami.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Some people move to the big city hoping to find themselves, but young Sickan Hermansson isn't leaving it up to chance.

Twenty-one, friendless, without money but not without hope, Sickan's arrival at Stockholm University represents a new start. Her lonely childhood in a small southern town has left her utterly unprepared for intimacy: for friends, for sex, for love even. But Sickan is determined to build a new version of herself from the ground up, to make up for lost time. To simply be normal.

Just as Sickan seems to be finding her first ever friends, in whose company she finally feels safe, she meets Abbe: beautiful, charming--and by some miracle he wants her too. Unlike Sickan, Abbe seems completely at ease in his own skin. A solid foundation then, on which to build a relationship? Maybe?

What A Time To Be Alive is a story of class, love, loneliness, and the trials of young womanhood. But above all, it's a story of firsts: the first party you're actually invited to, the first moment you fall in love, the first time you betray a friend. The first time you ask yourself, how much of myself am I willing to sacrifice, to finally fit in?

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