New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2011). Hardcover first edition - Author's third novel - "It's the early 1980s - the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever." Named to many best of the year lists - The New York Times Notable Books, The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year, Kirkus Top 25 and more. Eugenides was chosen by Granta Magazine as one of the top 20 young writers in the United States. 406 pp. ISBN: 978-0374203054.