Good Girl

Nila, nineteen and an artist, is the child of Afghan parents and lives in Berlin, where she spends a year in clubs, in a difficult romance, and in working out who she is. In the city's artistic underground she finds her tribe. There she becomes involved with Marlowe, an American author whose literary fame is fading, and he introduces her to patrons and festivals. His hold on her grows, racial tensions unsettle Germany and her community, and she finally asks what she wants to become. Love, family, grief and the errors of youth run through the novel.

Why You Should Read?

• Discover Berlin's artistic underground, where Nila finds her tribe among techno, drugs and warehouses scarred by old wars.
• Meet Marlowe, an American writer with fading fame who shows Nila a life of patrons and festivals.
• Follow Nila as Marlowe's controlling orbit tightens and racial tensions begin to trouble Germany and her community.
• Understand Nila's search for who she wants to be after a year spent dodging her own future.

About the Author

Aria Aber is a poet and novelist, born in Germany and living in the United States.