Idlewild and illustrates how these inequities

and illustrates how these inequities

and the messy edges of female friendship

its gripping narrative will confront you with searching questions that persist long after the last page

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

and introduces him to a magical

Idlewild and illustrates how these inequitiesNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Vox * The Paris Review * NPR * Vanity Fair A FINALIST FOR THE L. A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FIRST FICTION James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel. Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names,