📔A Gorgeous Excitement Cynthia Weiner Crown Publication date : January 21, 2025 368 pages, Hardcover Set in New York City during the volatile summer of 1986, A Gorgeous Excitement is a dark and immersive coming-of-age novel that captures a moment when glamour, excess and danger blurred into one intoxicating promise. As the city pulses with cocaine-fueled nights and rigid social hierarchies, eighteen-year-old Nina Jacobs is desperate to escape her mother’s untreated depression and carve out a version of herself before college begins. Drawn into the orbit of a charismatic Upper East Side golden boy, Nina mistakes obsession for love and excitement for freedom while ignoring warning signs that grow louder with every reckless choice. Inspired in part by the infamous Central Park “Preppy Murder,” the novel explores desire, privilege, outsider status and the seductive pull of risk. Lush with 1980s atmosphere and psychological tension, this debut asks how far we’ll go to feel wanted and what it costs when thrill eclipses self-preservation.
A Gorgeous Excitement by Cynthia Weiner
Inspired in part by the infamous Central Park “Preppy Murder,” this coming-of-age story explores desire, privilege, outsider status and the seductive pull of risk.
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