A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel
Cynthia Weiner
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In this âabsorbing, astute novelâ (Town & Country, Must Read Books of Winter 2025) one young womanâs summer of infinite possibility takes a turn she never saw coming.
âI havenât felt this kind of excitement reading a story set in the â80s since I first discovered Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, and Bret Easton Ellis.ââMargarita Montimore, bestselling author of Oona Out of Order
There are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986: avoid her motherâs depression-fueled rages, and lose her virginity before she starts college in the fall. Both are seemingly impossibleâwhen her mother isnât lying in bed for days, sheâs lashing out at Nina over any perceived slight. And after a blowjob gone spectacularly wrong, Nina is the talk of Flanaganâs, the Upper East Side bar where young Manhattan society congregates. It doesnât help that sheâs Jewish, an outsider among the blue-eyed blondes who populate this rarified world. She can fit in, kind of, with enough alcohol and prescription drugs stolen from her parentsâ medicine cabinet.
Flanaganâs is where she pines for the handsome, preppy, and charismatic Gardner Reed. Every girl wants to sleep with him and every guy wants to be him. After sheâs introduced to cocaine, Nina plunges headlong into her pursuit of Gardner, oblivious to the warning signs. When a new medication seemingly frees her mother from darkness, and Nina and Gardner grow closer, it seems like Nina might finally get what she wants. But at what cost?
Freud called cocaine âa gorgeous excitement,â but a gorgeous excitement for the wrong guy can be lethal.
âI havenât felt this kind of excitement reading a story set in the â80s since I first discovered Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, and Bret Easton Ellis.ââMargarita Montimore, bestselling author of Oona Out of Order
There are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986: avoid her motherâs depression-fueled rages, and lose her virginity before she starts college in the fall. Both are seemingly impossibleâwhen her mother isnât lying in bed for days, sheâs lashing out at Nina over any perceived slight. And after a blowjob gone spectacularly wrong, Nina is the talk of Flanaganâs, the Upper East Side bar where young Manhattan society congregates. It doesnât help that sheâs Jewish, an outsider among the blue-eyed blondes who populate this rarified world. She can fit in, kind of, with enough alcohol and prescription drugs stolen from her parentsâ medicine cabinet.
Flanaganâs is where she pines for the handsome, preppy, and charismatic Gardner Reed. Every girl wants to sleep with him and every guy wants to be him. After sheâs introduced to cocaine, Nina plunges headlong into her pursuit of Gardner, oblivious to the warning signs. When a new medication seemingly frees her mother from darkness, and Nina and Gardner grow closer, it seems like Nina might finally get what she wants. But at what cost?
Freud called cocaine âa gorgeous excitement,â but a gorgeous excitement for the wrong guy can be lethal.
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Cynthia Weiner has had a long career writing and teaching fiction. Her short stories have been published in Ploughshares, The Sun, and Epiphany, and her story, âBoyfriends,â was awarded a Pushcart Prize. She is also the assistant director of The Writers Studio in New York City. A Gorgeous Excitement, her first novel, was inspired by her upbringing on New Yorkâs Upper East Side in the 1980s, and particularly by the notorious âPreppy Murderâ of 1986. Weiner now lives in New Yorkâs Hudson Valley.
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