Description:A tour de force debut about a campus murder for readers of Donna Tartt, Meg Wolitzer, and Jeffrey Eugenides
When Charlie, Georgia and Alice arrive at Harvard, they're anticipating the kind of college experience that only the Ivy League can offer. An elite and revered institution, the school's every course, social event and ritual is infused with the promise of future success and happiness, and these years will mark their entry into the lives they'd always imagined for themselves.
Charlie, an earnest scholar at odds with his blue collar upbringing, has fallen for Georgia, the beautiful, elusive daughter of a famous artist and provocateur. Alice is a dark, striking and complicated young woman who arrived at college to escape from her Serbian immigrant family, and while she sees Georgia as a rival, the girls' mutual fascination for one another fuels a tumultuous but fierce friendship. When Georgia begins meeting with a mysterious new lover, Charlie and...