{"product_id":"a-gorgeous-excitement-cynthia-weiner-9780593798867","title":"A Gorgeous Excitement","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne young woman's summer of infinite possibility takes a turn she never saw coming in \"this 1980s coming-of-age tale [that's] chillingly compelling. Get ready to be transported.\"--\u003ci\u003ePeople \u003c\/i\u003e(Best Books of the Month)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN \u003ci\u003eOPRAH DAILY\u003c\/i\u003e BEST NEW THRILLER - A \u003ci\u003eTOWN \u0026amp; COUNTRY\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eCRIMEREADS \u003c\/i\u003eMOST ANTICIPATED BOOK\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I haven't felt this kind of excitement reading a story set in the '80s since I first discovered Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, and Bret Easton Ellis.\"--Margarita Montimore, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eOona Out of Order\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986: avoid her mother's depression-fueled rages, and lose her virginity before she starts college in the fall. Both are seemingly impossible\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003ewhen her mother isn't lying in bed for days, she's lashing out at Nina over any perceived slight. And after a blowjob gone spectacularly wrong, Nina is the talk of Flanagan's, the Upper East Side bar where young Manhattan society congregates. It doesn't help that she's Jewish, an outsider among the blue-eyed blondes who populate this rarified world. She can fit in, kind of, with enough alcohol and prescription drugs stolen from her parents' medicine cabinet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFlanagan's is where she pines for the handsome, preppy, and charismatic Gardner Reed. Every girl wants to sleep with him and every guy wants to be him. After she's introduced to cocaine, Nina plunges headlong into her pursuit of Gardner, oblivious to the warning signs. When a new medication seemingly frees her mother from darkness, and Nina and Gardner grow closer, it seems like Nina might finally get what she wants. But at what cost? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFreud called cocaine \"a gorgeous excitement,\" but a gorgeous excitement for the wrong guy can be lethal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia Weiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593798864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593798867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crown Publishing Group (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.75d","brand":"Cynthia Weiner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47612055683327,"sku":"9780593798867","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fb0f0d30-af2f-47fa-ac76-844477b07572.jpg?v=1764517876","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-gorgeous-excitement-cynthia-weiner-9780593798867","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}