Alina Grabowski

Sep 4, 2024 | theguardian.com | Alina Grabowski

When I heard the sound, I thought it was a stack of dishes crashing on to the cafe floor. Turning, I expected to see a flipped tray. What I saw instead was empty chairs and bodies crouched beneath tables. People had their hands interlaced across their bent heads, as though bracing for a plane’s rough landing. It was the summer of 2022. I was on holiday in Stockholm with my friends and former college roommates Allie and Sherry.

Jun 21, 2024 | sacbee.com | Jane L. Rosen |Alina Grabowski |Mariana Zapata |Susanna Hoffs

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May 18, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Alina Grabowski

Alina Grabowski's debut novel, WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST, opens with 16-year-old Jane waking after yet another soaking rain. She proceeds to ride her bike to work through streets still showing signs of the lasting damage done by past blizzards, storms and floods that seem likely only to get worse in this coastal Massachusetts town.

May 7, 2024 | bookbrowse.com | Alina Grabowski |Alex Russell

BookBrowse: The sudden death of a teenage girl links together ten monologues by women who knew her in Alina Grabowski's moving debut novel. After Lucy Anderson falls to her death at a high school party, no one in Nashquitten, her gloomy, rain-battered hometown on the Massachusetts coast, seems to be quite sure what happened. Did she jump? Was she pushed?

Feb 17, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Alina Grabowski |Kristin Hannah

A smart, propulsive novel attentive to the ways community can fall short. A teenager named Lucy Anderson dies under mysterious circumstances at a party after a video clip of her having a seizure circulates on social media. Grabowski’s novel traces a constellation of relationships, some intimate and others incidental, between Lucy and 10 girls and women who narrate the stories of their lives.