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A teenage girl, her best friend, and her mother grapple with obsessions and addictions in this daring coming-of-age debut novel. The year is 1999, and thirteen-year-old Elliot is a self-appointed “diet coach” who teaches her classmates how to survive on one stick of gum a day to get heroin-chic, Kate Moss thin. Elliot is obsessed with her best friend and former “client” Lisa, who is fresh out of inpatient treatment and dating a nineteen-year-old drug dealer. Meanwhile, Elliot’s mother Anna, a capricious poetry professor, has a drug addiction and eating disorder of her own. When Lisa transfers her fixation from food to sex with her boyfriend, Elliot’s fragile grip on reality begins to falter, at the same that time that Anna’s fascination with the object of her own blind lust, the student who relinquishes his cocaine to her during office hours begins to consume her. I Must Have You is the story of what happens one three-day weekend in an explosion of desire, hunger, and lost innocence. JoAnna Novak’s kaleidoscope of 1990s America, filled with vibrant imagery from riot grrl graffiti to Michael Jordan posters, offers a vision of the complexities of womanhood and the culture that keeps

Who reads I Must Have You : A Novel?

Author

JoAnna Novak

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781510719422

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.34 / 5 (45 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14