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Dark Enough - by Lauren Belski (Paperback)

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  • In the summer of 2000, nationally-ranked cross country sensation and academic overachiever Emily Banks finds herself scrambling for the right answer for the first time in her life after a high school party ends with a confusing sexual encounter that casts her down a rabbit hole of humiliation and regret.
  • About the Author: Lauren Belski is a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA program and the author of the short story collection Whatever Used to Grow Around Here.
  • 358 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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In the summer of 2000, nationally-ranked cross country sensation and academic overachiever Emily Banks finds herself scrambling for the right answer for the first time in her life after a high school party ends with a confusing sexual encounter that casts her down a rabbit hole of humiliation and regret. Unsure of who to confide in, Emily anchors her sanity around a summer science assignment on stargazing, where she travels from the safe cocoon of a home full of SAT prep books and overprotective parents into the light-polluted slate of the suburban Philadelphia night, where she learns that so many truths that seem so clear in the daytime-- friendships, family histories, what it means to be in love-- take on an entirely different character under the gaze of the distant stars.



Review Quotes




"An exuberant, fiercely funny novel that peers deep into the dark heart of adolescence" - Jenny Offill, author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation

"Urgent, atmospheric, and effortlessly profound" - Caeli Widger, author of Mother of Invention "An absolute love song for the euphoric growing pains of youth" - CJ Hauser, author of The Crane Wife

"A raw and honest exploration of a teen's summer of transformation" - Helen Philips, author of Hum



About the Author



Lauren Belski is a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA program and the author of the short story collection Whatever Used to Grow Around Here. Her short fiction, poetry, essays and criticism have appeared in Make, Matter, Black Rabbit Quarterly, The Trout Family Almanac, StoryQuarterly, Avidly, and elsewhere. Her novel-in-progress Dark Enough (then by a different name) was short-listed for The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society's William Wisdom Award and was also a finalist for The Carson McCullers Center Fellowship at Columbia State University.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.0 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Literary
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 358
Publisher: Under the Bqe Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Lauren Belski
Language: English
Street Date: June 17, 2025
TCIN: 1002586652
UPC: 9798991122016
Item Number (DPCI): 247-19-0016
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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