My Last Innocent Year: A Novel
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Daisy Alpert Florin. (2023). My Last Innocent Year: A Novel. Unabridged Macmillan Audio.

Daisy Alpert Florin. 2023. My Last Innocent Year: A Novel. Macmillan Audio.

Daisy Alpert Florin, My Last Innocent Year: A Novel. Macmillan Audio, 2023.

Daisy Alpert Florin. My Last Innocent Year: A Novel. Unabridged Macmillan Audio, 2023.

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   • bioText: 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. A native New Yorker, Florin lives in Connecticut with her family. My Last Innocent Year is her first novel.
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"The youthful-sounding Sarah Bierstock is an excellent choice to narrate this coming-of-age novel... Bierstock creates a likable character in Isabel, and listeners will want her to find her path—even if takes an affair with a professor to eliminate the bad options."- AudioFile

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 four 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 nonconsensual sexual encounter with one of the only other Jewish students on campus leaves her reeling.
Enter R. H. Connelly, a once-famous poet and Isabel's writing professor, a man with secrets of his own. Connelly makes Isabel feel seen, beautiful, talented: the woman she longs to become. His belief in her ignites a belief in herself, and the two begin an affair that shakes the foundation of who Isabel thinks she is, for better and worse. 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, Daisy Alpert Florin's 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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

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     December 12, 2022
     Florin debuts with an immersive if overly polished campus novel involving a creative writing student’s affair with her professor. Isabel Rosen, a New Yorker, enrolls at Wilder College in New Hampshire at the behest of her working-class father in the late 1990s. Shortly before she leaves for college, her mother dies from cancer. Grief-stricken during her freshman year, she’s preoccupied by memories of her mother. By Isabel’s senior year, her writing talent is recognized by R.H. Connelly, a married and formerly successful poet who is subbing for famous author Joanna Maxwell, who normally runs the senior workshop but is on leave due to an impending divorce from her professor husband, Tom, which caused a bit of a scandal. Against this backdrop, which also includes the Clinton-Lewinsky episode, Isabel and Connelly have an affair. Connelly helps Isabel grow creatively, though she has qualms about their relationship and suspects Connelly has done this before. Florian does great work exploring the era’s murky sexual politics, but the prose is burnished to the point of feeling stilted, and a post-college section feels a bit rushed. While sterile, this throwback has its moments.

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   • content: The youthful-sounding Sarah Bierstock is an excellent choice to narrate this coming-of-age novel. Isabel is in the last semester of her senior year of college, but life seems as confusing as ever. Bierstock makes Isabel's endless ruminations and dilemmas relatable, ensuring that she is a sympathetic character. Listeners will lean in to the specifics of this young Jewish woman who is grappling with quintessential 20-something questions. She does so in the late 1990s, during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Bierstock creates a likable character in Isabel, and listeners will want her to find her path--even if takes an affair with a professor to eliminate the bad options. Listeners may want to be aware that this title includes depictions of sexual violence. M.R. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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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.
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