Vintage Contemporaries

"Vintage Contemporaries is about being young and becoming less young, exploring friendship (sometimes magical, sometimes messy), parenthood (ditto), and how to reconcile youthful ambition and ideals with real life. It''s a warm and big-hearted coming of age story that made me wistful for my own twenties, set in a vividly rendered and long-vanished New York City."--Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind Slate editor Dan Kois makes his fiction debut with this stunning coming-of-age novel set in New York City, about the joys of unexpected life-altering friendships, the power of finding ourselves in the moment, and the importance of forgiving ourselves when we inevitably mess everything up. It''s 1991.

Em moved to New York City for excitement and possibility, but the big city isn''t quite what she thought it would be. Working as a literary agent''s assistant, she''s down to her last nineteen dollars but has made two close friends: Emily, a firebrand theater director living in a L