Book jacket image for Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

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STARRED REVIEW

Idlewild

James Frankie Thomas’ first novel is a fever dream of a book, full of longing, regret and hormones.

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Review of ‘Idlewild’

“For my first two years at Idlewild, I had no friends. I didn’t mind it much. I appreciated that no one paid attention to me, that I could move through the school unnoticed.” This is how we meet Nell Rifkin, a public school transfer on scholarship to the titular posh Quaker high school in Manhattan.…

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