An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discoverya stunning coming-of-age story (Publishers Weekly, starred review) anda portrait of the artist as a young woman setin a Berlin that cant escape its history

A girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she cant get out.

A no-bullsh*t, must-read debut.Kaveh Akbar
Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul.Raven Leilani
I loved this book.Leslie Jamison

In Berlins artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist.

Then in the haze of Berlins legendary nightlife, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer whose fading literary celebrity opens her eyes to a life of personal and artistic freedom. But as Nila finds herself pulled further into Marlowes controlling orbit, ugly, barely submerged racial tensions begin to roil Germanyand Nilas family and community. After a year of running from her future, Nila stops to ask herself the most important question: Who does she want to be?

A story of love and family, raves and Kafka, staying up all night and surviving the mistakes of youth, Good Girl is the virtuosic debut novel by a celebrated young poet and, now, a major new voice in fiction.