My First Book -- Honor Levy, Hardcover

A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Good Morning America, W, Nylon, SheReads, and LitHub

"We count on our best young fiction writers to bring us news from the digital nervous system. Honor Levy . . . does so with special bite and 駘an." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times

From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare

Walking the wire between imagination and confession, My First Book marks the arrival of an electric new talent. Honor Levy's uniquely riveting voice emerges from the chaos of coming of age in Generation Z. Never far from a digital interface, her characters grapple with formative political, existential, and romantic experiences in a web-drenched society on the brink of collapse.

Inventive, ambitious, and frequently surreal, the stories of My First Book are a mirrorball onto the world as it is. Levy illuminates what it is to be at once adorable, special, heavily medicated, consistently panicked, and completely sincere. One protagonist accompanies a girl with too many teeth through an abortion, while another discovers the infinite nature of love, a third reminisces about other sunsets that were "pinker, like way pinker," and another encounters God in a downtown arcade. To find and keep faith is the order of the day--but how?

Author: Honor Levy
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 05/14/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780593656532

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/15/2024
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2024
Booklist 05/01/2024 pg. 19

About the Author
Honor Levy is a writer from California. She graduated from Bennington College in 2020. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and New York Tyrant and been anthologized in Flash Fiction America.