An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman setin a Berlin that can't escape its historyA girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can’t get out."A no-bullsh*t must-read debut."—Kaveh Akbar"Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul.”—Raven Leilani"Radiant with longing, eroticism, and beauty."—Sarah Thankham MatthewsIn Berlin’s artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist.Then in the haze of Berlin's legendary nightlife, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer whose fading literary celebrity opens her eyes to a