Idlewild Hanukkah On the first day of

On the first day of her senior year

which sends her down a rabbit hole investigating a long line of murders in the Haskell family and seemingly wrongful convictions where the police ignored all the ghostly facts

and desperately struggling to hide how happy he is to see her

miraculously shaped by life

Idlewild Hanukkah On the first day ofNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Vox * The Paris Review * NPR * Vanity Fair A FINALIST FOR THE L. A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FIRST FICTION James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel. Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names,