JENNIFER MILLER, author of Inheriting the Holy Land: An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East, holds an undergraduate degree from Brown and graduate degrees in journalism and fiction from Columbia. Her work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Marie Claire, the Christian Science Monitor, the Daily Beast, Salon, and others. She is a native of Washington, D.C., and now lives in Brooklyn. This is her first novel.
"Part Dead Poet's Society. Part Heathers. Entirely addictive."
-Glamour
"Harrowing, enchanting, and utterly original."
-Daily Beast "A darkly comic romp...vivid and very enjoyable."
-Washington Post"Engages and provokes."
--The Boston Globe
"There is a relentless authenticity in her prose...Miller
effectively places here characters in a vice and squeezes the truth
out of them."
--The Atlantic.com "A smoldering mystery set in a New England prep
school... The author skillfully ratchets up the tension as Iris
(and the reader) finds it harder and harder to tell who the good
guys are... A gripping thrill ride that's also a thoughtful
coming-of-age story."
-Kirkus Reviews"In this engrossing novel, a would-be journalist
unearths scandalous secrets at her prep school with the help of a
famous reporter's ghost."
-O Magazine"A coming of age page-turner."
--Library Journal"Hysterical and moving, The Year of the Gadfly
fuses Special Topics in Calamity Physics with Portnoy's Complaint
for girls. This book is an imaginative delight."
--Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story"A dark,
whirling, and compelling read. The Year of the Gadfly is a
hilarious and heartbreaking story about friendship, acceptance, and
trust -- the way our search for them shapes our youth and how that
search can haunt us forever."
--Jennifer Close, author of Girls in White Dresses"This novel has
so much going for it: the feisty, heartbroken heroine, the ghost of
Edward R. Murrow, and a fascinating love story between an albino
girl and a gifted young scientist. In a brilliant portrayal of the
dark underbelly of adolescence, Miller explores a time when both
our identity and our future are at stake, and shows how rare it is
to leave that landscape unscathed."
--Ann Napolitano, author of Within Arm's Reach and A Good Hard Look
"It's hard to resist any novel whose young journalist heroine
hallucinates that she's in conversation with Edward R. Murrow. But
Jennifer Miller has also written a book with the feel of real
life--part science experiment, part mystery story, part a
coming-of-age narrative sorting out the truth about one's friends
and enemies."
--David Ignatius, author of Bloodmoney"Jennifer Miller is a writer
of exceptional promise, with instincts that are equally astute for
insight into character, innovative structure, memorable phrasing,
and startling plot turns that compel the reader to read on. In The
Year of the Gadfly, her literary gifts are on virtuoso display;
readers will be drawn deeply into this narrative and never want to
leave it!"
--Carol Goodman, author of The Lake of the Dead Languages and The
Seduction of Water
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