My Last Innocent Year A Novel by Daisy Alpert Florin

 
Book Excerpt:

"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 mourning her mother's death four years earlier, Isabel has always felt like an outsider at Wilder. Still, 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, and 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, Princess Diana, 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."

Title: My Last Innocent Year
Author: Daisy Alpert Florin
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Narrator: Sarah Bierstock
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: Four
Review:
"My Last Innocent Year" by Alpert Florin

My Sentiments:

'My Last Innocent Year' was a subtle, exciting novel, with the story taken from the last college year,1990, of Isabel Rosen coming of age. Sarah Bierstock narrated this story, and she did an excellent job with this story. This story features "friendship, family issues, relationships, beginning a career, sexual assault, a forbidden affair, grief, and healing from trauma;" this book has a little bit of it all. Be ready for twists and turns all over the place that will keep you continuing to listen to the reader to the very end. I enjoyed how the story had a backdrop of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal that was happening at this time in history, which added somewhat to the level of what was happening. Be ready for a good exciting read.

Thank you, Macmillan audio and NetGalley, for providing me with an audiobook arc in exchange for an honest review.

Title: My Last Innocent Year

Author: Daisy Alpert Florin
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Narrator: Sarah Bierstock
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: Four
Review:
"My Last Innocent Year" by Alpert Florin

My Sentiments:

'My Last Innocent Year' was a subtle, exciting novel, with the story taken from the last college year,1990, of Isabel Rosen coming of age. Sarah Bierstock narrated this story, and she did an excellent job with this story. This story features "friendship, family issues, relationships, beginning a career, sexual assault, a forbidden affair, grief, and healing from trauma;" this book has a little bit of it all. Be ready for twists and turns all over the place that will keep you continuing to listen to the reader to the very end. I enjoyed how the story had a backdrop of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal that was happening at this time in history, which added somewhat to the level of what was happening. Be ready for a good exciting read.

Thank you, Macmillan audio and NetGalley, for providing me with an audiobook arc in exchange for an honest review.

nest review.