Paperback edition of Eugenides' highly acclaimed latest novel, set in the early 1980s among a group of American college students. From the author of "The Virgin Suicides", which has sold more than 100, 000 copies and was adapted into a successful film, and "Middlesex", which sold more than 3 million copies and won the Pulitzer Prize. 'Eugenides has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being.' "Los Angeles Times