The Knockout Queen

The Knockout QueenA Finalist for the PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction An InStyle Best Book of the Year A Refinery29 Best Book of the Year By the end of high school, Bunny Lampert is 63 with the abs of a ninja turtle and the face of a boy angel. Her dad has chaotic salesman energy and her mom is dead. But from the outside, Bunny seems to have it allshes blonde, rich, and an Olympic volleyball hopeful. Michaelwho has a ponytail and a septum piercing, works at Rite Aid, and

from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road

Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love

A wealthy young mother knows the girl is her kidnapped daughter

Exceptional

where love is never safe and power becomes the deadliest temptation

With the Sun King determined to reclaim her

Told with a healthy dose of self-deprecation

she chose to be a schoolteacher

and a testament to the enduring power of the stories we tell about the places we call home

A haunting ode to self-reliant and quietly defiant women

A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else

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