Lonely Crowds | Stephanie Wambugu Coming of Age Fiction social comparison

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Nitasha turns to cutting

Featured in The New York Times's Nonfiction to Read This Spring

Is peace possible

Lonely Crowds | Stephanie Wambugu Coming of Age Fiction social comparisonLuster meets The Idiot in this riveting debut novel about a volatile friendship between two outsiders who escape their bleak childhoods and enter the glamorous early '90s art world in New York City, where only one of them can make it. Ruth, an only child of recent immigrants to New England, lives in an emotionally cold home and attends the local Catholic girl's school on a scholarship. Maria, a beautiful orphan whose Panamanian mother dies by suicide