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Good Girl

Once in a blue moon a debut novel comes along, announcing a voice quite unlike any other, with a layered story and sentences that crackle and pop, begging to be read aloud. Aria Aber’s splendid Good Girl introduces just such a voice ... The book’s not without wobbles, but Aber, an award-winning poet, strikes gold here ... A bildungsroman, gorgeously packed with Nila’s epiphanies on literature and philosophy, a tale of seductive risks and the burdens of diaspora.
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Exhilarating ... It’s thrilling to see her turn major poetic gifts toward the sweep of this Künstlerroman, the story of a young woman becoming other than she used to be. While reading Good Girl, I thought of James Baldwin, writing in a letter that 'the place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.' With her novel, Aber has made the world more spacious: More people will find a place to fit.
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Aber writes with the masterful precision of an archivist. Each scene is carefully documented, and the narrative maintains its forward momentum even when it is out of chronological order ... Repetitiveness can wear on the reader, but Aber manages to redeem it through the impeccable rhythm of her prose and her inspired choice of detail.
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