{"product_id":"the-beginners-isbn-9781594485794","title":"The Beginners","description":"Theo and Raquel Motherwell are the only newcomers to the sleepy town of Wick in fifteen-year-old Ginger Pritt’s memory. Hampered by a lingering innocence while her best friend, Cherry, grows more and more embroiled with boys, Ginger is instantly attracted to the worldliness of this dashing couple. But as Ginger’s keen imagination takes up the seductive mystery of their past, she is only left with more questions. Who—or what—exactly, are the Motherwells? And what is it they want with her? Both a lyrical coming-of-age story and a spine-tingling tale of ghostly menace, \u003ci\u003eThe Beginners \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces Rebecca Wolff as an exciting new talent in fiction.\"A meticulous and pitch-perfect fever dream of adolescence, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson remixed by Mary Gaitskill.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Jonathan Lethem, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fortress of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChronic City\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Original, electric, and fearless . . . Every page of \u003ci\u003eThe Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e shimmers with the intensity of language shaped around, aimed at, what can't be said or explained within the convention of a haunted New England town and its teenage antiheroine.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Kate Christensen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Man\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTrouble\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What a marvel, what a wonder, is this novel. It made me think of Rilke in collaboration with Emily Brontë. . . . Ravishing.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Peter Straub, author of \u003ci\u003eShadowland\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Dark Matter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Wolff\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning poet and the founding editor of \u003ci\u003eFence \u003c\/i\u003eand Fence Books. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is the author of three books of poems. She has published in \u003ci\u003eThe Nation, The Paris Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e. Wolff lives in Athens, New York.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302109335781,"sku":"NP9781594485794","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594485794.jpg?v=1767738302","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-beginners-isbn-9781594485794","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}