![]() ![]() ![]() She teaches fiction writing at Marymount Manhattan College, and is the director of writing programs at Catapult. ![]() Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, Oprah Magazine, Slate, Electric Literature, and One Teen Story, among other publications. Currently-lives in Brooklyn, New York City.Education-B.A., New School University M.F.A., New York University.Told in a haunting dialogue between past and present, Marlena is an unforgettable story of the friendships that shape us beyond reason and the ways it might be possible to pull oneself back from the brink. Now, decades later, when a ghost from that pivotal year surfaces unexpectedly, Cat must try again to move on, even as the memory of Marlena calls her back. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. The story of two girls and the wild year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decades to pull oneself back from the brink.Įverything about fifteen-year-old Cat’s new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena.Ĭat is quickly drawn into Marlena’s orbit and as she catalogues a litany of firsts-first drink, first cigarette, first kiss, first pill-Marlena’s habits harden and calcify. ![]()
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