A thoroughly modern take on the coming-of-age story.
Natalie is a young girl with an active inner life, active to the point where she has to work to keep the people around her and the people in her mind separate. When she leaves home for an all-girls dorm at a liberal arts college, things only get more confused.
Told from the perspective of a narrator who may or may not be Natalie, Hangsaman is a brilliant fusion of the bildungsroman and gothic traditions with an entirely twentieth century sensibility.
