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Aria Aber on her debut novel "Good Girl"
Reading and Talk with Theresia Enzensberger|GEGENÜBER Talks – Literature Across Borders
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Contribution from the Goethe-Institut Boston
Good Girl
Talk and reading with author Aria Aber and author and journalist Theresia Enzensberger
An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can’t escape its history.
In Berlin’s artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist.
A story of love and family, raves and Kafka, staying up all night and surviving the mistakes of youth, Good Girl is the virtuosic debut novel by a celebrated young poet and, now, a major new voice in fiction.
Published by Hogarth on January 14, 2025
About the participants
Aria Aber
Aria Aber was born and raised in Germany and now lives in the United States. Her debut poetry collection, Hard Damage, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Whiting Award. She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and graduate student at USC, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, The Yale Review, Granta, and elsewhere. Raised speaking Farsi and German, she writes in her third language, English. She serves as the poetry editor of Amulet, as a contributing editor at The Yale Review, and works as an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Vermont. Aber divides her time between Vermont and Brooklyn.
Theresia Enzensberger
Theresia Enzensberger is an author living and working in Berlin. She writes essays, reportages and reviews for various newspapers and magazines. In 2014, she founded BLOCK Magazine, which two years later went on to win the title of “Best Newcomer Magazine” at the Lead Awards. Her first novel, Blueprint, was published in 2016 and was translated into English and Italian. It won the Alfred Döblin Medal. At Sea, her second novel, was published in 2022 and was nominated for the German Book Awards. Her most recent publication, Sleeping (2024) is a partly fictional, partly essayistic exploration of insomnia and sleep.
