Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos

Prep meets The Secret History in Nash Jenkins’s Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos, a searing debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation through a distinctly millennial lens. “Juicy . . . Jenkins [is a] huge new literary talent.” -Curtis Sittenfeld, The Guardian“If Holden Caulfield had been dropped into the Obama era, he might be Foster Dade.” -The National Book Review When Foster Dade arrives at Kennedy, an elite boarding school in New Jersey, the year is 2008.Barack Obama begins his first term as president; Vampire Weekend and Passion Pit bump from the newly debuted iPhone; teenagers share confidences and rumors over BlackBerry Messenger and iChat; and the internet as we know it is slowly emerging from its cocoon.So, too, is Foster emerging-a transfer student and anxious young man, Foster is stumbling through adolescence in the wake of his parents’ scandalous divorce.But Foster soon finds himself in the company of Annabeth