Age of Consent

Coming of age in the 1980s, three young women navigate their way through drugs, alcohol, crushes, and predatory male teachers at a Connecticut boarding school. Despite their differences, they form a deep friendship and spend the summer in New York City, where they grapple with their sexual relationships with older men and the power that adults hold over them. Amanda Brainerd’s Age of Consent is a captivating, timeless novel about friendship, sex, and parental damage that intimately evokes the heady freedom of our teenage years.