num_pages: 400
description: Every happy teenage girl is the same while every unhappy teenage girl is miserable in her own special way.Meet Anna K. At seventeen she is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she prefers the company of her horses and Newfoundland dogs); she has the perfect (if perfectly boring) boyfriend Alexander W.; and she has always made her Korean-American father proud (even if he can be a little controlling). Meanwhile Anna's brother Steven and his girlfriend Lolly are trying to weather a sexting scandal; Lollys little sister Kimmie is struggling to recalibrate to normal life after an injury derails her ice dancing career; and Stevens best friend Dustin is madly (and one-sidedly) in love with Kimmie.As her friends struggle with the pitfalls of ordinary teenage life Anna always seems to be able to sail gracefully above it all. That isuntil the night she meets Alexia Count Vronsky at Grand Central. A notorious playboy who has bounced around boarding schools and who lives for his own pleasure Alexia is everything Anna is not. But he has never been in love until he meets Anna and maybe she hasnt either. As Alexia and Anna are pulled irresistibly together she has to decide how much of her life she is willing to let go for the chance to be with him. And when a shocking revelation threatens to shatter their relationship she is forced to question if she has ever known herself at all.Dazzlingly opulent and emotionally riveting Anna K.: A Love Story is a brilliant reimagining of Leo Tolstoy's timeless love story Anna Kareninabut above all it is a novel about the dizzying glorious heart-stopping experience of first love and first heartbreak.
language: English
title: Anna K: A Love Story
publisher: Flatiron Books