A Map of Tulsa: A Novel

Authors: Lytal, Benjamin
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC027020, FIC019000, FIC043000
ISBN: 9781101603000, Related ISBNs: 0142422592, 1101603003, 9780142422595, 9781101603000
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 272,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: “If Catcher in the Rye has lost its raw clout for recent generations of Internet-suckled American youth, here is a coming-of-age novel to replace it.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The first days of summer: Jim Praley is home from college, ready to unlock Tulsa's secrets. He drives the highways. He forces himself to get out of his car and walk into a bar. He's invited to a party. And there he meets Adrienne Booker; Adrienne rules Tulsa, in her way. A high-school dropout with a penthouse apartment, she takes a curious interest in Jim. Through her eyes, he will rediscover his hometown: its wasted sprawl, the beauty of its late nights, and, at the city's center, the unsleeping light of its skyscrapers.


In the tradition of Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, A Map of Tulsa is elegiac, graceful, and as much a story about young love as it is a love letter to a classic American city.

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