A bestselling masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends now on the cusp of their thirties making their wayand notin New York City. There is beautiful sophisticated Marina Thwaitean It girl finishing her first book the daughter of Murray Thwaite celebrated intellectual and journalistand her two closest friends from Brown Danielle a quietly appealing television producer and Julius a cashstrapped freelance critic. The delicious complications that arise among them become dangerous when Murrays nephew Frederick Bootie Tubb an idealistic college dropout determined to make his mark comes to town. As the skies darken it is Booties unexpected decisionsand their stunning heartbreaking outcomethat will change each of their lives forever. A richly drawn brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortuneof innocence and experience seduction and selfinvention of ambition including literary ambition of glamour disaster and promiseThe Emperors Children is a tour de force that brings to life a city a generation and the way we live in this moment. A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year show more