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An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery a stunning coming-of-age story (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can t escape its history
A girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can t get out.
A no-bullsh*t, must-read debut. Kaveh Akbar
Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul. Raven Leilani
An exhilarating debut novel. R. O. Kwon, The New York Times Book Review
"Once in a blue moon a debut novel comes along, announcing a voice quite unlike any other, with a layered story and sentences that crackle and pop, begging to be read aloud. Aria Aber s splendid Good Girl introduces just such a voice . . . Aber, an award-winning poet, strikes gold here, much like Kaveh Akbar did in last year s acclaimed Martyr! " Los Angeles Times
A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: The New York Times, Vulture, Elle, New York Post, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Bustle, Book Riot, Autostraddle, Daily Mail, Debutiful, Image, Our Culture, Write or Die Magazine
In Berlin s artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist.
Then in the haze of Berlin s legendary nightlife, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer whose fading literary celebrity opens her eyes to a life of personal and artistic freedom. But as Nila finds herself pulled further into Marlowe s controlling orbit, ugly, barely submerged racial tensions begin to roil Germany and Nila s family and community. After a year of running from her future, Nila stops to ask herself the most important question: Who does she want to be?
A story of love and family, raves and Kafka, staying up all night and surviving the mistakes of youth, Good Girl is the virtuosic debut novel by a celebrated young poet and, now, a major new voice in fiction.
A girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can t get out.
A no-bullsh*t, must-read debut. Kaveh Akbar
Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul. Raven Leilani
An exhilarating debut novel. R. O. Kwon, The New York Times Book Review
"Once in a blue moon a debut novel comes along, announcing a voice quite unlike any other, with a layered story and sentences that crackle and pop, begging to be read aloud. Aria Aber s splendid Good Girl introduces just such a voice . . . Aber, an award-winning poet, strikes gold here, much like Kaveh Akbar did in last year s acclaimed Martyr! " Los Angeles Times
A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: The New York Times, Vulture, Elle, New York Post, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Bustle, Book Riot, Autostraddle, Daily Mail, Debutiful, Image, Our Culture, Write or Die Magazine
In Berlin s artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist.
Then in the haze of Berlin s legendary nightlife, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer whose fading literary celebrity opens her eyes to a life of personal and artistic freedom. But as Nila finds herself pulled further into Marlowe s controlling orbit, ugly, barely submerged racial tensions begin to roil Germany and Nila s family and community. After a year of running from her future, Nila stops to ask herself the most important question: Who does she want to be?
A story of love and family, raves and Kafka, staying up all night and surviving the mistakes of youth, Good Girl is the virtuosic debut novel by a celebrated young poet and, now, a major new voice in fiction.
Produktdetails
Erscheinungsdatum
15. Januar 2025
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
348
Autor/Autorin
Aria Aber
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
322 g
Größe (L/B/H)
207/138/31 mm
ISBN
9780593978474
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Pressestimmen
[An] exhilarating debut novel . . . Aber s first book was a collection of poetry [Hard Damage]; she has published astonishing poems I ve read dozens of times. It s thrilling to see her turn major poetic gifts toward the sweep of this Künstlerroman . . . While reading Good Girl, I thought of James Baldwin, writing in a letter that the place in which I ll fit will not exist until I make it. With her novel, Aber has made the world more spacious: More people will find a place to fit. R. O. Kwon, The New York Times Book Review
A stunning coming-of-age story . . . a remarkable achievement. Publishers Weekly, starred review
Aber s first book, the poetry collection Hard Damage, earned her literary acclaim and the 2020 Whiting Award. Her debut novel, Good Girl, is bound to bring her the sort of broad public attention fans of her work have long known she deserved. Vulture
This book made me feel alive. Ay egül Sava , The Millions
Aria Aber is a poet who veers into that specifically ambiguous territory of famous poet , but even if you haven t yet heard of her, you re going to know her from her fiction debut, Good Girl. . . . I love reading a poet s fiction: every line is intentional and purposeful, gleaming with sharp, incisive meaning, while taking you on the journey of their narrator s life, and this one is no different. One gets to have it all in such a case: at the line level, the plot level, and the novel as a whole, it s a marvel. Literary Hub
A striking debut. Financial Times
I disappeared into the many overlapping and colliding worlds of this book and emerged with a glistening, vibrating, beautifully exhausted heart. . . . I loved this book. Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters
Aber s ear is so remarkably good you hardly even notice she s building this great symphony of textures, mosaics within mosaics. Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!
Rarely have the wildness and bewilderment of youth been conveyed with such richly textured heat. Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain
Good Girl charts with more precision and poetry than any novel I know the heavy inheritance that children of immigrants carry. It is stunning, suspenseful, boldly defiant, and masterfully crafted; I only put this novel down to marvel at its prose. Fatima Farheen Mirza, author of A Place for Us
In Good Girl, pleasure is textured, surprising, and treated with utter seriousness. Raven Leilani, author of Luster
A novel to be transported and moved by . . . [a] portrait of a young Muslim artist finding her way. Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different
A haunting exploration of identity and desire, and a testament to Aber s immense storytelling talent, as remarkable and timeless as the very nature of fiction itself. Morgan Talty, author of Fire Exit
A heartbreaking song of youth and desire and violence and history and the unbearable solitude of displacement. Jamil Jan Kochai, author of The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
She explores the intergenerational sting of what it means to be a good girl culturally, sexually, and socially. Her masterful prose guides the reader down the back alleys of Berlin. Marlowe Granados, filmmaker and author of Happy Hour
A stunning coming-of-age story . . . a remarkable achievement. Publishers Weekly, starred review
Aber s first book, the poetry collection Hard Damage, earned her literary acclaim and the 2020 Whiting Award. Her debut novel, Good Girl, is bound to bring her the sort of broad public attention fans of her work have long known she deserved. Vulture
This book made me feel alive. Ay egül Sava , The Millions
Aria Aber is a poet who veers into that specifically ambiguous territory of famous poet , but even if you haven t yet heard of her, you re going to know her from her fiction debut, Good Girl. . . . I love reading a poet s fiction: every line is intentional and purposeful, gleaming with sharp, incisive meaning, while taking you on the journey of their narrator s life, and this one is no different. One gets to have it all in such a case: at the line level, the plot level, and the novel as a whole, it s a marvel. Literary Hub
A striking debut. Financial Times
I disappeared into the many overlapping and colliding worlds of this book and emerged with a glistening, vibrating, beautifully exhausted heart. . . . I loved this book. Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters
Aber s ear is so remarkably good you hardly even notice she s building this great symphony of textures, mosaics within mosaics. Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!
Rarely have the wildness and bewilderment of youth been conveyed with such richly textured heat. Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain
Good Girl charts with more precision and poetry than any novel I know the heavy inheritance that children of immigrants carry. It is stunning, suspenseful, boldly defiant, and masterfully crafted; I only put this novel down to marvel at its prose. Fatima Farheen Mirza, author of A Place for Us
In Good Girl, pleasure is textured, surprising, and treated with utter seriousness. Raven Leilani, author of Luster
A novel to be transported and moved by . . . [a] portrait of a young Muslim artist finding her way. Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different
A haunting exploration of identity and desire, and a testament to Aber s immense storytelling talent, as remarkable and timeless as the very nature of fiction itself. Morgan Talty, author of Fire Exit
A heartbreaking song of youth and desire and violence and history and the unbearable solitude of displacement. Jamil Jan Kochai, author of The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
She explores the intergenerational sting of what it means to be a good girl culturally, sexually, and socially. Her masterful prose guides the reader down the back alleys of Berlin. Marlowe Granados, filmmaker and author of Happy Hour
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