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5 Things causing my Armed with her lists, her journals and her therapist, Cat Barnatan sets out to prove to herself and her parents that she can handle junior year in a public school and eventually find a home at Princeton. She’s baffled when eccentric classmates, Liz and Ty, open a door to friendship, and she finds herself drawn to quietly stunning Niko.
As Cat’s world grows, she feels proud to be contributing her own personality to her friendship with Liz and Ty. She likes what is growing between her and Niko, likes getting to know his family. She likes who she’s becoming. But growing comes with pains. When new information about Jacks’ car wreck surfaces, will Cat spiral back into isolation or will she reach out to her new tribe to pull her up?
As Cat’s world grows, she feels proud to be contributing her own personality to her friendship with Liz and Ty. She likes what is growing between her and Niko, likes getting to know his family. She likes who she’s becoming. But growing comes with pains. When new information about Jacks’ car wreck surfaces, will Cat spiral back into isolation or will she reach out to her new tribe to pull her up?
282 pages, Paperback
Published August 5, 2023
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About the author
Rachel Cohen
36 books12 followersRachel Cohen has written essays for The New Yorker, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, Apollo, The New York Times, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s and other publications, and her essays have been anthologized in Best American Essays and in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her third book, Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels was published by FSG in July 2020 to critical acclaim. Austen Years is a meditation on reading, having children, the death of her father, five novels by Jane Austen, and reading again in times of isolation and transformation.
Cohen's first book, A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, (Random House, 2004) is a series of thirty-six linked essays about the encounters among thirty figures in American history during the long century from the civil war through the civil rights movement; it won the PEN/Jerard Fund Award, was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Prize and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and was named a notable book of the year by the Los Angeles Times and by Maureen Corrigan on National Public Radio. Her second book, Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade, (Yale University Press, 2013) investigates the development of a great art connoisseur who began life as a penniless Lithuanian immigrant and made his career in the world of Gilded Age finance and prejudice. It was longlisted for the JQ Wingate prize and an excerpt from it appeared in the New Yorker under the title "Priceless."
Cohen has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago, and lives in Chicago.
Cohen's first book, A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, (Random House, 2004) is a series of thirty-six linked essays about the encounters among thirty figures in American history during the long century from the civil war through the civil rights movement; it won the PEN/Jerard Fund Award, was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Prize and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and was named a notable book of the year by the Los Angeles Times and by Maureen Corrigan on National Public Radio. Her second book, Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade, (Yale University Press, 2013) investigates the development of a great art connoisseur who began life as a penniless Lithuanian immigrant and made his career in the world of Gilded Age finance and prejudice. It was longlisted for the JQ Wingate prize and an excerpt from it appeared in the New Yorker under the title "Priceless."
Cohen has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago, and lives in Chicago.
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December 26, 2023
Tribe is a poignant and empowering story about a high school girl riddled with an anxiety so intense she has chosen to be home schooled for years. But when her beloved best friend, Jax, dies, Cat forces herself to re-enter the world and try to exist among the peers she's desperately been avoiding.
The strength of this novel is its insanely well done characterization. I absolutely loved Cat and all the characters in this book. I rooted for them and couldn't wait to read what happened to them next.
This is a must-read for all high school kids struggling with anxiety or the loss of a loved one as well as for anyone who loved John Green's Turtles All the Way Down.
The strength of this novel is its insanely well done characterization. I absolutely loved Cat and all the characters in this book. I rooted for them and couldn't wait to read what happened to them next.
This is a must-read for all high school kids struggling with anxiety or the loss of a loved one as well as for anyone who loved John Green's Turtles All the Way Down.
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