Good Girl

Praise

“A stunning coming-of-age story . . . a remarkable achievement.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“I disappeared into the many overlapping and colliding worlds of this book and emerged with a glistening, vibrating, beautifully exhausted heart. . . . I loved this book.”—Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters

“Aber’s ear is so remarkably good you hardly even notice she’s building this great symphony of textures, mosaics within mosaics.”—Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!

“Rarely have the wildness and bewilderment of youth been conveyed with such richly textured heat.”—Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain

“Good Girl charts with more precision and poetry than any novel I know the heavy inheritance that children of immigrants carry. It is stunning, suspenseful, boldly defiant, and masterfully crafted; I only put this novel down to marvel at its prose.”—Fatima Farheen Mirza, author of A Place for Us

“In Good Girl, pleasure is textured, surprising, and treated with utter seriousness.”—Raven Leilani, author of Luster

“Aria Aber’s debut is a novel to be transported and moved by, full as it is of many charms, from its jeweled prose to its evocations of history-haunted Berlin to its portrait of a young Muslim artist finding her way.”—Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different

“A haunting exploration of identity and desire, and a testament to Aber’s immense storytelling talent, ensuring Good Girl remains as remarkable and timeless as the very nature of fiction itself.”—Morgan Talty, author of Fire Exit

“A heartbreaking song of youth and desire and violence and history and the unbearable solitude of displacement.”—Jamil Jan Kochai, author of The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

“She explores the intergenerational sting of what it means to be a ‘good girl’ culturally, sexually, and socially. Her masterful prose guides the reader down the back alleys of Berlin, inviting the reader into a world all of her own making.”—Marlowe Granados, filmmaker and author of Happy Hour