Ask Me Again

<p><b>From the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize nominee whose short stories received instant acclaim (&lsquo;Sparingly told, evoked with lacerating intimacy . . . Extraordinary&rsquo; &ndash; <i>Esquire</i>), a debut novel about a young woman&rsquo;s coming of age, in parallel with a renegade male friend who challenges her beliefs and the course of her life.</b><br><br>At sixteen, Eva meets Jamie by chance. She lives in middle-class South Brooklyn; he comes from the super-rich of upper Manhattan. She&rsquo;s observant, cautious, eager to seem normal; he&rsquo;s curious, bold, full of mysteries. She keeps a keen intelligence under wraps; his eccentric brilliance is all but impossible to repress.<br><br>While Eva welcomes Jamie into her family&rsquo;s embrace, he avoids going home; with little in common, they are drawn together in a deep friendship. As Eva goes off to an elite college and falls in and out of lov