White Fur: A Novel [Paperback]

Amazon Best Book / Literature + Fiction
Barnes & Noble Discover Pick
Huffington Post“Great New Books” for Summer 2017
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A stunning star-crossed love story set against the glitz and grit of 1980s New York City
 
When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from different worlds. Elise grew up in a housing project without a father and didn’t graduate from high school; Jamey is a junior at Yale, heir to a private investment bank fortune and beholden to high family expectations. Nevertheless, the attraction is instant, and what starts out as sexual obsession turns into something greater, stranger, and impossible to ignore.
 
The couple moves to Manhattan in search of a new life, andWhite Furfollows them as they wander through Newport mansions and East Village dives, WASP-establishment yacht clubs and the grimy streets below Canal Street, fighting the forces determined to keep them apart.White Furcombines the electricity ofLess Than Zerowith the timeless intensity ofRomeo and Julietin this searing, gorgeously written novel that perfectly captures the ferocity of young love.PRAISE FOR WHITE FUR

“A fairy tale of love and class and money and death and New York City in the 1980's, as seen through eyes so new and so young that everything seems like magic all the time…What holds it together is ferocity — Libaire's elegant, incongruous, glitz-and-trash command of the language of youth and young love, and the uncompromising fire of her main characters as they drift and dash from page to page.”—NPR

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