Flat Earth

*A book of the year in the Daily Mail and the New Statesman* *A 5 under 35 honoree* 'Dazzling ... a captivating coming-of-age novel about friendship and femininity. Cool, clever and current' Daily Mail 'Hypnotic' Financial Times * * * * * * * * Avery is flailing financially and emotionally. She dates older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. Meanwhile, her wealthy best friend Frances drops out of grad school, gets married, and still somehow manages to finish an experimental documentary about right-wing conspiracy theories. Frances's return to New York as the toast of the art world sends Avery into a final tailspin, causing her to make a series of devastating decisions. * * * * * * * * 'Visionary' Chris Kraus 'Set in a post vibe-shift New York inhabited by edgy artists and aspiring trad wives, a strange and smart addition to the canon of novels about young women coming undone in big cities' Irish Times 'Rich ... propulsive ... a capturing of an American cultural moment' Times Literary Supplement 'This novel will soon be in the hands of cool girls everywhere . . . juicy and tantalizingly zeitgeisty' The Times

Anika Jade Levy is a writer from Colorado. She is a founding editor of Forever Magazine and teaches in the School of the Arts program at Columbia. She is a contributor at Playboy and her reporting has appeared in GQ, Nylon and Interview.