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From the acclaimed author of Marlena comes a "magnificent" ( The New York Times ) novel about a young woman looking for a father and finding herself. "Superb, incendiary . . . Each sentence is diamond cut. . . . Famous Men pleases and provokes from every vantage point, but what is especially remarkable is Buntin's audacity, her gutsy choices, and her clarity."- The Boston Globe A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times, USA Today, The New Yorker, Marie Claire, Lit Hub, The Millions, Our Culture The right book at the right time can change your life. Will Miles is trapped. Trapped in tiny Greening, Michigan, where a toxic high school rumor has turned her into a social exile. Trapped in the predictable routines of her mother, and under the unrelenting gaze of her mother's increasingly sinister boyfriend. But when Will stumbles across the early poems of Nathaniel Fellow, a famous writer forty years h