The debut novel from "New York Times"-bestselling author Meg
Wolitzer, a story of three college students' shared fascination
with poetry and death, and how one of them must face difficult
truths in order to leave her obsession behind.
Published when she was only twenty-three and written while she was
a student at Brown, Sleepwalking marks the beginning of Meg
Wolitzer's acclaimed career. Filled with her usual wisdom,
compassion and insight, "Sleepwalking "tells the story of the three
notorious "death girls," so called on the Swarthmore campus because
they dress in black and are each absorbed in the work and suicide
of a different poet: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Wolitzer's
creation Lucy Asher, a gifted writer who drowned herself at
twenty-four. At night the death girls gather in a candlelit room to
read their heroines' work aloud.
But an affair with Julian, an upperclassman, pushes sensitive,
struggling Claire Danziger--she of the Lucy Asher obsession--to
consider to what degree her "death girl" identity is really who she
is. As she grapples with her feelings for Julian, her own
understanding of herself and her past begins to shift uncomfortably
and even disturbingly. Finally, Claire takes drastic measures to
confront the facts about herself that she has been avoiding for
years.
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