Evil Genius

Evil GeniusAn exuberant, brutally hilarious novel about a young womans insatiable quest to carve her own patheven if she needs to step over a few dead bodies along the way Its 1974 and San Francisco is full of mystery and menace. Nineteen year old Celia Dent keeps telling herself how lucky she is to be working at a steady job and married to her Drew, a man who says he loves her. Celias contentment with her little life is shattered, though, when a woman she knows

A former sorority girl starts a prestigious poetry MFA program only to discover that one of her classmates is her high school crush-turned-nemesis— and he can't stop writing about her

Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth

one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large—at a terrifying cost

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Her bodyguard

while Tess is a shy (and claustrophobic) legal assistant struggling to pay for law school

He saved his money to buy vinyl as soon as it landed

But ten years ago

a quest that reunites him with former friends and neighbors and leads him into the woods that surround Hemlock Circle

The beloved author of Holes presents his first adult novel

The Oprah Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2019*  *A People Magazine Book of the Week*

Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit