"Coming-of-age in Manhattan may not have been done this brilliantly since
Catcher in the Rye. . . . Get ready to fall in love."
—Kirkus (starred review)
"[A] sizzling debut is a coming-of-age novel set in 1993 New York."
—Bustle
"One of the buzziest debuts of the winter may also sound a tad
familiar: a coming-of-age story set in ’90s New York City. But early
word is this may rank among the best in that ever-popular subgenre."
—Entertainment Weekly
"This charming coming-of-age story will get no shortage of comparisons
to The Catcher in the Rye. But Dana Czapnik gives readers a heroine all
her own: 17-year-old Lucy, a half-Jewish, half-Italian, whip-smart
basketball dynamo who is desperately in love with her best friend, a
fellow hoops player."
—CHATELAINE
"Remember your moony-eyed, slightly awkward 17-year-old self, hesitantly
optimistic for the future and bit overwhelmed by the present? Lucy
Adler, the ridiculously endearing high school senior (and ridiculously
gifted basketball player) at the center of Dana Czapnik’s debut novel,
will take you back to the days of unrequited crushes with cold, cool
boys and philosophical conversations with friends on walks home from
school. The Falconer is the new definitive New York coming-of-age story —
expect to underline many poignant sentences, as well as dreamy
descriptions of the city at night."
—Refinery29
"Move over Holden Caulfield… there is a new rebel in town. Lucy Adler
has taken over as the cynical, smart-talking badass. Soak up the
nostalgia of New York in the 90s with Lucy... This coming-of-age novel
is one you won’t want to miss this year!"
—Get Literary
“The
book is filled with highly caffeinated badass riffs on Manhattan's
scenery and soul, on feminism and art, on Lucy's generation, and on
basketball itself. . . . Lucy's simmering sexuality, her reaction to the
male bodies around her, is never off the page for long. After all the
books we've read about horny, frustrated adolescent boys, it's nice to
get a different perspective. . . . Lucy may come from 1993, but her
voice and her energy are just what we need right now.”—
Newsday
“Smart,
tough, an extraordinary athlete, Lucy Adler teeters, zealous and
baffled, on the cusp of womanhood. Dana Czapnik’s frank heroine has a
voice, and a perspective, you won’t soon forget.
The Falconer is an exhilarating debut.
—Claire Messud,
author of The Burning Girl and The Woman Upstairs
“A deeply affecting tale of a young woman coming of age in a man’s
world. All the characters feel authentic and unique, and its
protagonist, Lucy Adler, jumps right off the page. I’ve never read a
character quite like her in fiction - a deeply intelligent basketball
player with a sharp, incisive take on the changing city and country in
which she lives. Lucy’s journey into adulthood will be especially
resonant with today’s readers.”
—Salman Rushdie, author of The Golden House and Midnight’s Children
“An unsentimental education in all that is urgent, soulful and
intimate. As much the portrait of an era as it is the portrait of an
adolescence, this is a crossover novel that will thrill readers of all
generations.
The Falconer captures the grueling, exhilarating pathos of one woman’s quest to become whole. A wonderful debut.”
—Colum McCann, author of Thirteen Ways of Looking and Let The Great World Spin
"
The Falconer is a novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything."
—Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and co-owner of Parnassus Books
“Meet Lucy Adler. As I read
The Falconer,
I felt like I'd found a literary cousin of Holden Caulfield--if Holden
were a straight-shooting, hip-hop-listening, court-dominating,
seventeen-year-old Jewish-Italian girl. Dana Czapnik has crafted a
wholly original coming-of-age story. In basketball terms,
The Falconer is a fearless three-point shot.”
—Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists and The Anatomy of Dreams
"Told with a poet's ear and a basketball player's eye and reflexes, The
Falconer is an extraordinary book. Czapnik is refreshingly honest and
open-eyed about the way money, gender and the demands of the body steer
the overwhelming longings and frustrations of being a young woman
growing up in the city. Every detail feels true and important, every
small observation tells a larger story. A wonderful new talent."
—Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances and American Innovations
Dana Czapnik
Dana Czapnik is a 2018
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from The New York Foundation for the
Arts. In 2017, she was awarded an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the
Center for Fiction. Czapnik earned her MFA at Hunter College where she
was recognized with a Hertog Fellowship. She’s spent most of her career
on the editorial side of professional sports including stints at ESPN
the Magazine, the United States Tennis Association and the Arena
Football League. Her debut novel, The Falconer, will be published by
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, in January of 2019. A
native New Yorker, she lives in Manhattan with her husband and son.
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