{"product_id":"the-falconer","title":"The Falconer","description":"Review\n\nAnother book I raced through . . . it's completely gorgeous, and I really, really hope it makes an impact here . .. such a fresh take on the coming-of-age story. Absolutely filled with beautiful, quotable lines, my copy is covered with pencil. -- Pandora Sykes ― The High Low\n\nThe moments when Lucy, the book's narrator, is shooting hoops offer some of the liveliest sports writing in fiction. Yet the real joy of this coming-of-age story derives from inhabiting such a nuanced 17-year-old, who vividly captures the hubris and insecurity of youth . . . a love-letter to the dynamism of New York . . . a winning tale about the often-painful alchemy of adolescence, which transforms the misadventures of youth into something like wisdom. ― Economist\n\nOnce in a while a character comes along that gives voice to our own lives, our own heads and a chafing for something more: The Falconer's teenage heroine Lucy Adler is IT . . . With a voice that'll make you want to tear through its 274 pages, Adler's sweet discoveries of feminism and self-belief are a joy to behold while its last line (don't peek) is worth getting tattooed on your wrist. Don't miss it. ― Stylist\n\nCzapnik's prose is fast-paced and often intriguing [and] captures the inner voice of an American teenager. ― The Times\n\nThe Falconer is a novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything. -- Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of COMMONWEALTH\n\n[An] electric debut novel. Reader, beware: Spending time with Lucy is unapologetic fun, and heartbreak, and awe as well. ― New York Times Book Review\n\nSmart, tough, an extraordinary athlete, Lucy Adler teeters, zealous and baffled, on the cusp of womanhood. Dana Czapnik's frank heroine has a voice, and a perspective, you won't soon forget. The Falconer is an exhilarating debut. -- Claire Messud, author of THE WOMAN UPSTAIRS\n\nA deeply affecting tale of a young woman coming of age in a man's world ... and its protagonist, Lucy Adler, jumps right off the page. I've never read a character quite like her in fiction [her] journey into adulthood will be especially resonant with today's readers. -- Salman Rushdie\n\nMeet Lucy Adler. As I read The Falconer, I felt like I'd found a literary cousin of Holden Caulfield--if Holden were a straight-shooting, hip-hop-listening, court-dominating, seventeen-year-old Jewish-Italian girl. Dana Czapnik has crafted a wholly original coming-of-age story. -- Chloe Benjamin, author of THE IMMORTALISTS\n\nAn unsentimental education in all that is urgent, soulful and intimate. As much the portrait of an era as it is the portrait of an adolescence, this is a crossover novel that will thrill readers of all generations. The Falconer captures the grueling, exhilarating pathos of one woman's quest to become whole. A wonderful debut. -- Colum McCann, author of LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN\n\nI fell utterly in love with Lucy Adler, with her energy, her drive, her heart full to bursting with ambition and hope and unrequited love ... An intoxicating debut. -- LUCY CALDWELL\n\nThis novel sparkles. ― Bookmunch\n\nThis is the book we needed as teenagers, but it is by no means a teenage book. Following in the bildungsroman tradition, Dana Czapanik captures the strange interplay of insight, ambition and innocence of being 17. The majesty of The Falconer is all wrapped up in its heroine, sporty, spunky Lucy Adler . . . Czapanik has an ear for the thud of asphalt and the high of an unlikely goal . . . [the] emotional landscape and setting is so warm it engulfs you, transporting you right back to the thrills and fears of growing up. ― Culture Whisper\n\nThis coming-of-age novel is different to anything you've ever read . . . The prose vibrates with the energy of the city and will leave you rooting for Lucy. ― ELLE\n\n[Lucy's] voice is pitch-perfect: witty, street-smart and original, and her description of the Big Apple has the city sparking off the page. ― Daily Mail\n\nProduct Descriptio","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40595643793493,"sku":"9780571355938N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/7e1c5a4c-6c4f-4521-b82c-f9fb68a85d60.jpg?v=1682420383","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-falconer","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}