A child gets ready for a wonderful day

In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative

All you have to do is be an ordinary person (with great instincts) and be will- ing to read this handbook from cover to cover

Except Jack's Cosmic Hand is now even more powerful than he realized

And it won't be ignored

Idlewild: A Novel Mary Winn Heider A child gets ready forNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Vox * The Paris Review * NPR * Vanity Fair A FINALIST FOR THE L. A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FIRST FICTION James Frankie Thomass Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel. Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names,