A βtense, taut, and thrillingβ (Marie Claire) novel about a teenage girl, a predatory teacher, and a schoolβs complicity from the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Womenββriveting, terrifying, exactly the book for our timesβ (Ann Patchett).
They were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens at night on a βborrowedβ golf cart, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has tipped her parentsβ rocky marriage into demise. She is ready to begin again, far away from the accident.
βDevastatingly relevantβ (Vogue) and βfueled by gorgeous writingβ (NPR), His Favorites reveals the interior life of a young woman determined to navigate the treachery in a new world. Told from her perspective many years later, the story coolly describes a series of shattering events and a school that failed to protect her. βBefore things turn treacherous, thereβs a moment when predation can feel dangerously like kindnessβ¦Walbert understands thisβ¦His Favorites begs to be readβ (Time).