A DEBUT NOVEL

VIKING   JULY 14   2020

"A TOTAL TIME MACHINE - I LOVED IT."  

Maria Semple, Author of Where'd You Go Bernadette

Best Summer 2020 Book Lists:

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Publisher's Weekly calls Age of Consent a "bracing debut...engaging...well written...inspired."

"A bracing debut. On the surface, Brainerd’s tale is a nostalgic trip into the early 1980s, including an inspired evocation of the Downtown art scene, but her teenage characters make the greatest impact. The takes on parental neglect and the ways young women are taught to see sex as transactional make this more than a throwback.” -- Publishers Weekly

"A powerful, wildly entertaining story of friendship and identity set against the backdrop of the early 80s, an era which has uncanny parallels to today. Brainerd brilliantly captures the struggles of young women trying to find their way in a time when their parents and role models are in deep crisis. Age of Consent is both a juicy page-turner and a haunting, personal portrait of an era." 

-- Aline Brosh McKenna, screenwriter of “The Devil Wears Prada” and co-creator of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"