Julie Buntin
3 Books Written
An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decadesEverything about fifteen-year-old Cat’s new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is
“To me, Julie Buntin is something like the poet laureate of the young and female and working class. The bard of knowing you come from nothing and wanting something better and struggling to believe you deserve such a thing, especially as you watch women like you, better than you, smarter or more beautiful or both, get sucked back in by drugs or despair or abusive men. Her novel Marlena, the first c
From the acclaimed author of the “wild, gorgeous” (San Francisco Chronicle) Marlena comes a novel about a young woman looking for a father and finding herself—a vivid, uncompromising exploration of sex, money, power, and art.The right book at the right time can change your life.Will Miles is trapped. Trapped in tiny Greening, Michigan, where a toxic high school rumor has tu