A New York Times Editor's Choice Pick and Oprah Magazine Reading Room #1 Pick for March. New York, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public basketball courts. Lucy’s inner life is a contradiction. She’s by turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed and, despite herself, is in unrequited love with her best friend Percy, scion of a prominent New York family who insists he wishes to resist his upper crust fate. Lucy questions accepted notions of success, while bristling against her own hunger for male approval. In her hit US debut, Dana Czapnik memorably captures the voice of a young woman in the first flush of freedom searching for an authentic way to live and love.