With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, this stunning debut about a young ing?nue in the big city is "as refreshing as gin fizz . . . a wild careening joyride through a hot sultry summer in New York" (Rachel Syme, The New Yorker).
Isa Epley, all of twenty-one years old, is already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. She arrives...