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Set around a summer camp in the Berkshires in the early aughts, PERENNIALS follows the lives of Rachel and Fiona, two girls who meet at Camp Marigold as teenagers and later return as counselors, navigating their treacherous transition from adolescence to adulthood as well as showcasing the pleasures and pains of those friends, lovers and family whose lives intersect with the girls’ along the way.

A beautifully distilled love song to girlhood innocence, told in a voice so successful in its emotional keenness that it is at times piercingly acute (when it’s not downright delicious), PERENNIALS will make you laugh, make you shake your head in frustration as you watch Rachel and Fiona make all too familiar mistakes, make you nod knowingly. It will also break your heart.

With this debut, Columbia MFA graduate Mandy Berman takes her place alongside writers

 

Mandy Berman is a writer from Nyack, New York. Her debut novel, Perennials, is forthcoming from Random House. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, studying under Victor LaValle, Deborah Eisenberg and Elissa Schappell. . She lives and writes in Brooklyn.