Falling in love, maintaining fragile family relationships and growing to
understand the incremental effect of every experience, Hilary Thayer
Hamann's coming-of-age novel is a depiction of sexual and intellectual
awakening against the backdrop of East Hampton in the 1970s and moneyed,
high-pressured Manhattan in the 1980s. More than just a love story, Anthropology of an American Girl is an
extraordinary piece of writing, original in its vision and thrilling in
its execution.
As Evie Auerbach surrenders to the dazzling emotional highs of love and the crippling loneliness of heartbreak, she strives to reconcile her identity with the constraints that all relationships inherently place on us. Though she stumbles and strains against social conventions, Evie remains a strong yet sensitive observer of the world around her, often finding beauty and meaning in unexpected places.
