Bradstreet Gate

A tour de force debut about a campus murder for readers of Donna Tartt, Meg Wolitzer, and Jeffrey Eugenides

Charlie, Georgia and Alice each arrive at Harvard with a different vision of what the future will hold. But when a classmate is found murdered on campus just before graduation, the secure environment that’s surrounded them seems suddenly compromised. Moreover, a trusted professor who has loomed large in their lives is suspected of the crime. Though his guilt or innocence is unclear, the unsettling new questions raised by the case force the three friends to take a deeper look at their tangled relationship. Their bond has been defined by the secrets they’ve kept from one another—Charlie’s love and Alice’s envy, Georgia’s mysterious affair—and over the course of the next decade, as they grapple with new phases of adulthood and witness the unraveling of a once-beloved teacher’s life, they must reckon with their own deceits and shortcomings, each desperately in search of answers and the chance to be forgiven.

A relentless, incisive, and keenly intelligent novel about promise, disappointment, and the often tenuous bonds of friendship,Bradstreet Gate is the auspicious debut of a tremendously talented new writer.


From the Hardcover edition.

ROBIN KIRMAN earned a BA in philosophy from Yale College and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she served as a writing instructor for several years in the English department. Robin lives in New York City and Israel.