Julie Buxbaum, Author . Dial $25 (306p) ISBN 978-0-385-34122-6
Harvard law grad Buxbaum makes an appealing debut with this tale of Yale law graduate Emily Haxby, eager to break through the emotional and professional ties that bind her. “It's like you get pleasure out of breaking your own heart,†best friend
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Julie Buxbaum, Author . Dial $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-34124-0
Like her debut, The Opposite of Love
, Buxbaum’s second novel concerns a woman struggling with devastating loss. When American ex-pat Lucy Stafford is killed by a mugger, her lifelong best friend Ellie Lerner drops everything to fly to London.
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Julie Buxbaum. Delacorte, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-53564-8
Jessie’s mother has been dead for two years, and because her father has recently married a woman he met online and moved the family to Los Angeles, Jessie is starting her junior year at a fancy private school where she knows no one. The only good...
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Julie Buxbaum. Delacorte, $18.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-553-53568-6
One month after the death of her father in a car accident, high school junior Kit Lowell is beginning to realize that “grief not only morphs time, but space too.” Distancing herself from her two best friends, who are back to talking about things...
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Julie Buxbaum. Delacorte, $18.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5247-6677-1
In this novel, Buxbaum (Tell Me Three Things) offers up an emotionally resonant, wryly humorous portrayal of two young adults navigating trauma and acceptance years after 9/11. Nearly 17-year-old Abbi Hope Goldstein is eager to spend the summer as...
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Julie Buxbaum. Delacorte, $18.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-9848-9362-8
Based on the 2019 college admissions scandal, Buxbaum’s ripped-from-the-headlines story gives readers a fictionalized peek into the families who saw no harm in helping their already advantaged children through bribery, cheating, and fraud. Daughter...
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Julie Buxbaum. Delacorte, $18.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-984893-66-6
Four 16-year-olds’ emotionally tumultuous junior year is further complicated when their Los Angeles high school is targeted by an arsonist. Twins Imogen and Archer Gibson, cued white, and Paige Cohen-Chen, who is Jewish and Chinese American, have...
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Julie Buxbaum, illus. by Lavanya Naidu. Delacorte, $14.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-42946-4
When her grandmother, with whom she’s lived almost all her life, moves into a retirement home, 12-year-old Sky Patel-Baum, who reads as of South Asian descent, is sent to stay with her only other living relative. Uncle Anish is second-in-command of...
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Julie Buxbaum, Author, Ariadne Meyers, Read by , read by Ariadne Meyers. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-5904-4
Ariadne Meyers gives a masterful performance of this realistic novel about Emily, a young woman whose life is unraveling: she breaks up with her longtime boyfriend, hates her job, and her beloved grandfather is dying. Meyers inhabits the role...
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