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Jean: A Novel

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Set over one hot summer, a startlingly assured debut about the kinds of love that break us and make us whole.Seventeen-year-old Jean, a troubled Jewish boy caught in the countercultural swirl of 1970s London, arrives at Compton Manor, a rural alternative boarding school for boys with “problems.” Dyslexic, antisocial, and prone to violent outbursts, Jean has never made friends easily and school has never been a place of safety or enjoyment.Compton Manor is his last chance, but even here, despite the unconventional teaching methods, Jean is marked by difference. The other boys are fee-paying, while Jean is on a grant; they have good, English families, while Jean’s mother, Rosa, is a German-Jewish refugee and his father is an absent memory. Having broken the rules several times, Jean is on thin ice. But there is only one summer to get through and then Jean will pass his exams and get out.All of a sudden, he is befriended by Tom―confident, charming, buoyed by years of good breeding and privilege―and it seems as if Jean’s world might change. When things turn romantic, Jean is tipped into a heady, overwhelming infatuation. Now Jean skips class to venture into the woods, or sneaks across moonlit fields to see Tom, wondering whether the relationship might offer a way out of a life marked by alienation. But what if the only true path to freedom is to disappear altogetherSpellbinding and evocative, Jean is a meditative narrative of loss and escape distilled into the heartrending story of an intense and dangerous adolescent love. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company


Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 13, 2026


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 132410564X


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 40


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.7 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.8 x 0.9 x 8.7 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #156,537 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #227 in LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction (Books) #1,166 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books) #6,533 in Literary Fiction (Books)


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