The girl who never read Noam Chomsky

An ambitious debut, at once timely and timeless, that captures the complexity and joys of modern womanhood. This novel is gem like -- in its precision, its many facets, and its containing multitudes. Following in the footsteps of Virginia Woolf, Rona Jaffe, Maggie Shipstead, and Sheila Heti, Jana Casale writes with bold assurance about the female experience. We first meet Leda in a coffee shop on an average afternoon, notable only for the fact th...