| Author | Clare Sestanovich |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Literary fiction, bildungsroman |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | June 11, 2024 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 303 |
| ISBN | 9780593318119 (hardcover) |
| 813/.6 | |
| LC Class | PS3619.E83 A94 2024 |
Ask Me Again is a 2024 coming-of-age novel by American author Clare Sestanovich. It is her debut novel and was published by Knopf Publishing Group.
Eva, a precocious 16-year-old girl from a middle-class south Brooklyn family, befriends Jamie, a teenage boy from a wealthy Upper Manhattan family. [1] As they enter young adulthood, Eva pursues education and a career, while Jamie becomes involved in radical politics. [2]
In The Guardian , Jonathan Lee praised the novel, writing that "a good coming-of-age novel knows that individuals, like their countries, never really stop coming of age". [2] Ariella Garmaise of The Washington Post also favorably reviewed Ask Me Again, arguing "if Sestanovich’s thematic ambitions are broad — the meaning of life, the coherence of identity, the possibility of principles — her language is cuttingly precise". [3]
Andrew Martin, in The New York Times Book Review , was more mixed on Ask Me Again, writing that "on the scale of a novel, [Sestanovich]'s hesitancy becomes unsatisfying". [4]