THE FALCONER
by Dana Czapnik
“Coming of age story set in NY in the 1990s from the perspective of an incredibly bright, basketball playing teenage girl who doesn't quite fit in. Reads like Salinger's Catcher in The Rye meets Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries. Fast paced, whip-smart and deeply moving. LOVE.”
A new coming-of-age classic, an early '90s New York-set novel of love, basketball, art and feminism. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts.
Lucy's inner life is a contradiction. She's by turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed and, despite herself, is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy, son of a prominent New York family who is trying to resist his upper crust fate. As Lucy questions accepted notions of success, bristling against her own hunger for male approval, she is drawn into the world of a pair of provocative female artists living in what remains of New York's bohemia. In her hit US debut, Dana Czapnik memorably captures the voice of a young woman in the first flush of freedom searching for an authentic way to live and love.