num_pages: 278
description: New York 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler a street-smart trash-talking baller is often the only girl on the public courts. At turns quixotic and cynical insecure and self-possessed Lucy is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy scion to a prominent New York family who insists he wishes to resist upper crust fate.As she navigates this complex relationship with all its youthful heartache Lucy is seduced by a different kind of lifeone less consumed by conventional success and the approval of men. A pair of provocative female artists living in what remains of New Yorks bohemia invite her into their world but soon even their paradise begins to show cracks.
language: English
title: The Falconer
publisher: Atria Books