Anna Pitoniak is the author of The Futures and Necessary People. She worked for many years in book publishing, most recently as a Senior Editor at Random House. She grew up in Whistler, British Columbia, and now lives in New York City.
"An especially good [novel]...about the things you believe in when
you're young, and what breaks your heart along the way."
--Refinery29, "One of the 2017 Books We're Most Excited About"
"The Futures takes place on the cusp of the 2008 market crash, and
so perfectly encapsulates that time of life when everything was
just beginning, when you had no idea who you were or where you were
going."--Popsugar
"St. Elmo's Fire for millennials."
--Bustle
"The Futures is a love story and so much more. It captures the
heartaches and exhilarations of early adulthood with a keen eye, a
big heart, superb writing and an artfully intricate plot. This is a
book for people of all ages looking for a place in the world, and
Anna Pitoniak is a young novelist with some serious writing
chops."--Meg Mitchell Moore, author of The Admissions
"The Futures stands out for its beautiful writing, emotional depth
and evocative feel."
--New York Post
"The Futures transports us to that post-college moment when it
seems like you have all the options in the world but no clue about
which ones to choose. Pitoniak weaves an unflinchingly honest tale
of two people trying to navigate expectations and learning to live
with their own mistakes. A compelling and memorable debut."--J.
Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The
Engagements
"Wall Street meets Girls."
--Elle Canada
"[The Futures] is about a couple that moves to New York after
college. Just like everyone else, the love/hate relationship with
this town is real. Either this book will have me canceling my
return ticket, or falling in love with the city all over
again."--Vogue.com
"[A] debut novel written by and for the literary millennial ...
Pitoniak maintains her keen eye for the universal insecurities
facing her generation today, from romantic uncertainties and the
relative benefits and downsides of hedge fund and nonprofit jobs to
the emotional effort it requires to negotiate the predetermined
facts of one's upbringing with the person one chooses to
become."--Harper's Bazaar, "13 Books You Need to Read in
January"
"A charming story and damn fine debut. Tightly told, entirely
readable ... An engaging story with elegant language and a cast of
strong off-suit characters who temper the two-person narrative
perfectly ... Pitoniak's honest portrayal honours both better-known
and under-told truths of life after graduation."--National Post
"Acutely drawn ... We were transported back to our younger selves
and that universal feeling of trying to make sense of an uncertain
future ahead ... Already looking forward to what Anna Pitoniak will
write next."--goop
"An emotional page-turner."
--Cosmopolitan
"Anna Pitoniak perfectly captures the confusion and heartbreak of
those post-college years, when even the strongest among us falter
in the face of our own desires. The Futures reminded me of
Brightness Falls, Jay McInerney's great novel of New York, for
Pitoniak, like McInerney, possesses an instinctual understanding of
the mechanisms that make the city run and a knack for embracing her
characters' thornier sides. Utterly enjoyable."--Joanna Rakoff,
author of My Salinger Year
"Anna Pitoniak's debut novel, The Futures, is the perfect cocktail
of smart prose, heartwarming characters, and unmatched savvy about
modern city life. Like The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. or A
Fortunate Age, this book will amaze and elate you."--Kristopher
Jansma, author of Why We Came to the City
"Boy meets girl. They fall in love and everything's picture
perfect. Until the financial crisis hits and boy gets involved in a
shady deal at work. This read is The Big Short meets
Serendipity."--theSkimm
"Following in the footsteps of classic debut novels like Rona
Jaffe's The Best of Everything and Jay McInerney's Bright Lights,
Big City, Pitoniak charts a tumultuous period in New York City
history that transforms a group of recent college grads in ways
they never anticipated. As in Kristopher Jansma's latest, Why We
Came to the City, also set in the heady days of 2008, Pitoniak's
ingenuous youths are helpless against the risk and potential they
perceive lurking around each corner."
--Village Voice
"Mesmerizing ... The novel's alternating structure is hypnotic.
Pitoniak is an absolute ventriloquist, completely inhabiting the
voices of the two protagonists--their ambitions, anxieties,
pettiness, sadness, and great love for one another. I couldn't put
it down."--Sunil Yapa, author of Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of
a Fist
"Pitoniak expertly captures both the excitement and the oppressive
darkness of being young and at sea in New York City, the
unsettingly thin line between freedom and free fall ... Deeply
empathetic-and always engaging. A bittersweet coming-of-age drama
and a portrait of an era."--Kirkus
"Pitoniak is a sure-footed, fluid writer ... Her low-key,
confessional style is well-suited to her focus: the anxiety that
attends the transition from college to the work force, from
structure to structureless."--Globe & Mail
"Pitoniak keeps the pace moving at a steady clip ... Pitoniak's
well-plotted, character-driven, interior-focused novel captures the
knowable angst of the unknowable possibilities of modern young
adulthood."--Booklist
"Pitoniak ratchets up the suspense as she explores love and big
finance ... [With] savvy plotting and nimble shifts in perspective
... Pitoniak inhabits both characters convincingly, displaying an
uncanny ability to convey their dissimilar and sometimes clashing
impressions of the same events."--Toronto Star
"Pitoniak's assured debut explores the cost of realizing-and
misinterpreting-one's dreams ... Navigating terrain-love and youth,
college and city life-that's often oversimplified, Pitoniak eschews
cliche for nuanced characterization and sharply observed detail.
Evan and Julia ring true as 20-somethings, but Pitoniak's novel
also speaks to anyone who has searched among possible futures for
the way back to what Julia calls 'the person I had been all
along.'"--Publishers Weekly
"Pitoniak's debut focuses on that time of life that is at turns
both exhilarating and terrifying: right after getting out of
college, when you're forced to confront who you are and who you
want to be, when you know life is just beginning, but you're also
starting to feel like many of your options are fading
away."--Nylon, "Best New Books of 2017"
"Pitoniak's inspired debut centers on two recent college grads who
move to New York City together during the 2008 recession and watch
their relationship change drastically."--InStyle
"Tender and wise, The Futures feels like a true story. Pitoniak's
voice is stylish and authentic, and perfect for exploring this rich
territory: youth and love and New York City."--Karen Thompson
Walker, New York Times bestselling author of The Age of
Miracles
"The smart, fast-paced book calls to mind a period when bright
young things moved to New York to work for Goldman Sachs and not
Google ... Part of a larger conversation about coming of age that
includes novels like Adelle Waldman's The Love Affairs of Nathaniel
P. and Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children."--Town & Country
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