The Knockout Queen: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

ISBN: 0525567291

Author: Thorpe, Rufi

Condition: New

A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionAn InStyle Best Book of the YearA Refinery29 Best Book of the YearBy the end of high school, Bunny Lampert is 63 with the abs of a ninja turtle and the face of a boy angel. Her dad has chaotic salesman energy and her mom is dead. But from the outside, Bunny seems to have it all-shes blonde, rich, and an Olympic volleyball hopeful. Michael-who has a ponytail and a septum piercing, works at Rite-Aid, and has a secret Grindr-lives with his aunt in the cramped cottage next door to Bunnys McMansion. When Bunny catches Michael smoking in her yard, he discovers that her life is not as perfect as it seems.Their friendship is as improbable as it is irresistible, but when Michael falls in love for the first time, a vicious strain of gossip circulates and a terrible, brutal act becomes the defining feature of both his and Bunnys futures. A beautiful and darkly comic book about doing things you didnt mean to do, wanting things you wish you didnt want, and loving people you cant afford to love.