Falling in love, maintaining fragile family relationships and growing to understand the incremental effect of every experience, Hilary Thayer Hamann's coming-of-age novel is a depiction of sexual and intellectual awakening against the backdrop of East Hampton in the 1970s and moneyed, high-pressured Manhattan in the 1980s.
As Evie Auerbach surrenders to the dazzling emotional highs of love and the crippling loneliness of heartbreak, she strives to reconcile her identity with the constraints that all relationships inherently place on us. Though she stumbles and strains against social conventions, Evie remains a strong yet sensitive observer of the world around her, often finding beauty and meaning in unexpected places.
More than just a love story, Anthropology of an American Girl is an extraordinary piece of writing, original in its vision and thrilling in its execution.
- ISBN10 0385527144
- ISBN13 9780385527149
- Publish Date 25 May 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 26 February 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Spiegel & Grau
- Edition Spiegel & Grau ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 606
- Language English