Pages for You

Something made her risk a look at the reader, who took a sip of black coffee. & another. She turned the pages. She pursed her lips. Flannery abandoned her breakfast & watched the woman drink her coffee. It wasn't that she wanted the coffee herself. That wasn't it. Rather, she wanted to be the coffee: she envied the dark drink its chance to taste those lips. In a steam-filled diner in a college town, Flannery Jansen catches sight of something more beautiful than she's ever seen: a graduate student, reading. The seventeen-year-old, new to everything around her--college, the east coast, bodies of literature, & the sexual flurries of student life--is shocked by her own desire to follow this beauty wherever it takes her. By chance Flannery finds herself enrolled in a class with the remote, brilliant older woman: intimidated at first, she gradually becomes Anne Arden's student outside class as well. Whatever the subject--Baudelaire, lipstick colors--Flannery proves an eager pupil, until one day she learns more about Anne than she ever wanted to know. A bittersweet, exhilarating sentimental education, Pages for You confirms Sylvia Brownrigg as "one of the most exuberantly agile minds among younger American writers" (Dan Cryer, Newsday) & is her sexiest, most poignant work to date.Sylvia Brownrigg is the author of 'Pages for You' with ISBN 9780374228590 and ISBN 0374228590.