{"product_id":"his-favorites-9781476799407","title":"His Favorites","description":"A \"tense, taut, and thrilling\" (Marie Claire) novel about a teenage girl, a predatory teacher, and a school's complicity from the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women--\"riveting, terrifying, exactly the book for our times\" (Ann Patchett).They were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens at night on a \"borrowed\" golf cart, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has tipped her parents' rocky marriage into demise. She is ready to begin again, far away from the accident. \"Devastatingly relevant\" (Vogue) and \"fueled by gorgeous writing\" (NPR), His Favorites reveals the interior life of a young woman determined to navigate the treachery in a new world. Told from her perspective many years later, the story coolly describes a series of shattering events and a school that failed to protect her. \"Before things turn treacherous, there's a moment when predation can feel dangerously like kindness...Walbert understands this...His Favorites begs to be read\" (Time).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate Walbert is the author of seven works of fiction: \u003ci\u003eShe Was Like That\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the Story Prize and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of the Year; \u003ci\u003eHis Favorites\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ean \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year; T\u003ci\u003ehe Sunken Cathedral\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Women\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10 Best Books of the Year and finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize; \u003ci\u003eOur Kind\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Book Award finalist; \u003ci\u003eThe Gardens of Kyoto\u003c\/i\u003e; and the story collection \u003ci\u003eWhere She Went\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in many publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe O. Henry Prize\u003c\/i\u003e stories. She lives with her family in New York City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50524542337298,"sku":"9781476799407","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2c269f03-bbb4-4488-af65-767d1a276037.jpg?v=1731181984","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/his-favorites-9781476799407","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}