White Fur: A Novel

"It begins the way all great stories should: with a boy, a girl, a shotgun and a cheap motel room. Three hundred lightning bolt pages later, it ends the same way – a girl, a boy and a gun. And in between, White Fur, the new novel from Jardine Libaire, is not so much a story as a fable. A fairy tale of love and class and money and death and New York City in the 1980s, as seen through eyes so new and so young that everything seems like magic all the time. What holds it together is ferocity – Libaire’s elegant, incongruous, glitz-and-trash command of the language of youth and young love, and the uncompromising fire of her main characters as they drift and dash from page to page."