Congratulations to Tamara Faith Berger, whose novel Maidenhead has won the Believer Book Award!  This award is given to a book the Believer editors think is “the strongest and most underappreciated of the year.”  Exactly.  Buy Maidenhead from us here. 

This is one of my favorite descriptions in Maidenhead: a sound that at first seems like “clicking, like magnets that you keep sticking together.”  The action slowly comes into focus for the reader and narrator simultaneously.  

“I felt my heart being startled in time to those sounds.”

“With so much focus in our world on what young female sexuality ideally looks like, it’s a relief to see this portrait of what young female sexuality honestly feels like. Maidenhead is a mesmerizing and important novel, lying somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, Girls Gone Wild and Michel Foucault. It’s a thrilling, enlightening and really hot place to be.” — Sheila Heti

Buy Maidenhead now!  See Tamara (plus Emily Carter and Ariana Reines) read next week!