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A Map of Tulsa
A Novel
Benjamin Lytal
The first days of summer, Tulsa, Oklahoma: Jim Praley
is back from college, ready to unlock the secrets of his
hometown. He drives the highways. He forces himself to
get out of his car and walk into a bar. He gets invited to a
party. He meets Adrienne Booker, a wealthy high-school
dropout living in a downtown penthouse. She is way out of
his league, but somehow, as an unlikely couple, they click.
With Adrienne, Jim feels at home in Tulsa for the first
time. College seems very remote; the city’s anonymous
skyscrapers have never looked better.
In the tradition of Michael Chabon’s The Mysteries
of Pittsburgh, A Map of Tulsa is elegiac, graceful, and as
much a story about young love as it is a love letter to a
classic American city.
BenJAMin lytAl has written
for the Wall Street Journal, the Los
Angeles Times, Bookforum, the Believer,
McSweeney’s, Fence, and the Nation. He
has worked at the New Yorker, taught at
the Pratt Institute, and written a column on
new fiction for the New York Sun. Originally
from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Lytal graduated from
Harvard and lives in Chicago.
“ A Map of Tulsa is a remarkable novel.
Benjamin Lytal has written a glorious and
exquisitely crafted work of art, one that
poignantly brings to life all the joy and
heartbreak of youth with compassion, grace,
and wisdom.” —Dinaw Mengestu, author of
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and
How to Read the Air
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