Description A classic romantic tale with a modern twist, this dazzling Indies Introduce pick follows two New York teenagers as they secretly fall in love for the first time.
She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and baby daughter..
She has written for The Harvard Business Review, Fah Thai magazine and Brave New Traveler.
Previously, she was a weekly columnist for The Phnom Penh Post and her work appears in the anthology How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit?: True Stories of Expat Women in Asia (Signal 8 Press).
About the Author Shannon Dunlap is a graduate of the MFA program at New York University.
This fast-paced novel is at once a gripping tale of first love and a sprawling epic about the bonds that tie us together and pull us apart and the different cultures and tensions that fill the contemporary American landscape.
Told from several points of view, Izzy + Tristan is a love story for the ages and a love story for this very moment.
In debut author Shannon Dunlap\'s capable hands, the romance that has enthralled for 800 years is spun new.
When he and Izzy meet one fateful night, together they tumble into a story as old and unstoppable as love itself.
Tristan is a chess prodigy who lives with his aunt and looks up to his cousin, Marcus, who has watched out for him over the years.
And then she meets Tristan.
She feels distanced from her family, especially her increasingly incomprehensible twin brother, as well as her new neighborhood.
Izzy, a practical-minded teen who intends to become a doctor, isn\'t happy about her recent move from the Lower East Side across the river to Brooklyn.
Description A classic romantic tale with a modern twist, this dazzling Indies Introduce pick follows two New York teenagers as they secretly fall in love for the first time
