Normal People Don't Live Like This
“Wonderful! Leah and Helen are authentic, vulnerable characters, whose intimate truths are exposed at perfect, unexpected moments.”―Elizabeth Strout A jolting, sensual, and deeply compassionate novel-in-stories from one of the masters of the form. 1970s Greenwich Village: Leah Levinson can’t help worshipping the girls who torment her at school. Her perilous, magnetic friendships with Rainey Royal and Angeline Yost—girls she fears yet cannot resist—leave her desperate to shift the balance of power and affection. Meanwhile, Leah's emotionally estranged mother, Helen, secretly rents a room uptown where she lives out a second life. And Rainey—whose chaotic upbringing fills her with artistic insp