Good Girl by Aria Aber

Good Girl by Aria Aber

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A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery.

In Berlin's underground, where techno rattles buildings still scarred with the violence of the last century, nineteen-year-old Nila finds her tribe. In their company she can escape the parallel city that made her, the public housing block packed with refugees and immigrants, where the bathrooms are infested with silverfish and the walls outside are graffitied with swastikas. 

Escaping into the clubs, Nila tries to outrun the shadow of her dead mother, once a feminist revolutionary; her catatonic, defeated father; and the cab-driver uncles who seem to idle on every corner. To anyone who asks, her family is Greek, not Afghani.

And then Nila meets American writer Marlowe Woods, whose literary celebrity, though fading, opens her eyes to a world of patrons and festivals, one that imbues her dreams of life as an artist with new possibility. But as she finds herself drawn further into his orbit and ugly, barely submerged tensions begin to roil and claw beneath the city's cosmopolitan veneer, everything she hopes for, hates, and believes about herself will be challenged.

REVIEWS

"Vivid, shockingly moving ... She unwinds complex histories and legacies - of people, places and politics alike - with a deft touch." ― Financial Times

"Aria Aber's exciting debut novel finds the daughter of an Afghan refugee sidestepping disapproval and racism as she dives into Berlin's nightworld ... With her novel, Aber has made the world more spacious: More people will find a place to fit." ― New York Times

"A book of self-making and unmaking, of self-destruction and self-discovery ... A book coursing with desire and shame, flight and pursuit, Good Girl is ultimately about the desperate need to find oneself and one's home, whatever the cost. Where home might not be a place or a people at all, but the world of art and literature itself."― Between the Covers

PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 978-1526679031
Pages: 368