What Belongs to You: A Novel [Paperback]

Longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction A Finalist for the James Taite Black Prize for Fiction A Finalist the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A Finalist for the Green Carnation Prize ANew York TimesBook ReviewEditors Choice ALos Angeles TimesBestseller

Named One of the Best Books of the Year by More Than Fifty Publications, Including:The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times(selected by Dwight Garner),GQ, The Washington Post,Esquire,NPR,Slate, Vulture, theSan Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian(London), The Telegraph(London),The Evening Standard(London),The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, The Millions, BuzzFeed, The New Republic(Best Debuts of the Year),Kirkus Reviews, andPublishers Weekly(One of the Ten Best Books of the Year)

Garth Greenwell'sWhat Belongs to Youappeared in early 2016,and is a short first novel by a young writer; still, it was not easily surpassed by anything that appeared later in the year....It is not just first novelists who will be envious of Greenwell's achievement. James Wood,The New Yorker

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofias National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual predation, and tenderness can transform into violence. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, hes forced to grapple with his own fraught historyl“7