By Kristopher Jansma
ISBN-10: 0143109642
ISBN-13: 9780143109648
ISBN-10: 0525426604
ISBN-13: 9780525426608
December, 2008. A heavy storm from snow is blowing via ny and the financial system is near to cave in, yet none of that issues to a handful of visitors at a complicated vacation celebration. 5 years after their collage commencement, the fiercely committed buddies on the middle of this richly soaking up novel stay as inseparable as ever: editor and social butterfly Sara Sherman, her bothered astronomer boyfriend George Murphy, loudmouth poet Jacob Blaumann, classics significant became funding banker William Cho, and Irene Richmond, a fascinating artist with an inscrutable past.
Amid joyful revelry and free-flowing champagne, the buddies toast themselves and the hot 12 months ahead—a 12 months that holds many surprises in shop. they need to navigate ever-shifting relationships with the town and with each other, decided to push onward in pursuit in their precarious goals. And whilst a devastating blow brings their momentum to a halt, the crowd is compelled to reexamine their aspirations and chart new paths via unforeseen losses.
Kristopher Jansma’s award-winning debut novel, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, used to be praised for its “wry humor” and “charmingly unreliable narrator” in The New Yorker and hailed as “F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson” by means of The Village Voice. In Why We got here to the City, Jansma offers an unforgettable exploration of friendships solid within the fires of ambition, ardour, desire, and love. This glittering tale of a iteration coming of age is a sweeping, poignant triumph.
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