Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos av Nash Jenkins

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<B><I>Prep </I></B><B>meets <I>The Secret History</I> in Nash Jenkins’s <I>Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos</I>, a searing debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation through a distinctly millennial lens.</B><BR/> <BR/><B>“Juicy . . . Jenkins [is a] huge new literary talent.” —Curtis Sittenfeld, <I>The Guardian</I></B><BR/> <BR/><B>“If Holden Caulfield had been dropped into the Obama era, he might be Foster Dade.” —<I>The National Book Review</I></B><BR/> <BR/> When Foster Dade arrives at Kennedy, an elite boarding school in New Jersey, the year is 2008. Barack Obama begins his first term as president; Vampire Weekend and Passion Pit bump from the newly debuted iPhone; teenagers share confidences and rumors over BlackBerry Messenger and iChat; and the internet as we know it is slowly emerging from its cocoon. So, too, is Foster emerging—a transfer student