My Last Innocent Year Daisy Alpert Florin by Daisy Alpert Florin 9781250857040, 125085704X instant download after payment.

An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one woman's final semester at an elite New England college into controversy and chaos - and into an ill-advised affair with a married professor. 

It's 1998 and Isabel Rosen, the only daughter of a Lower East Side appetizing store owner, has one semester left at Wilder College, a prestigious school in New Hampshire. Desperate to shed her working-class roots and still mourning the death of her mother 4 years earlier, Isabel has always felt like an outsider at Wilder but now, in her final semester, she believes she has found her place - until a non-consensual sexual encounter with one of the only other Jewish students on campus leaves her reeling.

As the lives of the adults around her slowly come apart, Isabel discovers that the line between youth and adulthood is less defined than she thought. 

A coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, My Last Innocent Year is a timely and wise portrait of a young woman learning to trust her voice and move toward independence while recognizing the beauty and grit of where she came from. 

Daisy Alpert Florin attended Dartmouth College and received graduate degrees from Columbia University and Bank Street Graduate School of Education. She is a recipient of the 2016 Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College and was a 2019–20 fellow in the BookEnds novel revision fellowship, where she worked with founding director Susan Scarf Merrell.