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Narrator Jenna Ushkowitz is an awardwinning actress singer producer and podcast host best known for her role as Tina CohenChang on Glee

Meet Anna K Every happy teenage girl is the same while every unhappy teenage girl is miserable in her own special way

At seventeen Anna K is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society even if she prefers the company of her horses and dogs she has the perfect if perfectly boring boyfriend Alexander W and she has always made her KoreanAmerican father proud even if he can be a little controlling Meanwhile Annas brother Steven and his girlfriend Lolly are trying to weather a sexting scandal Lollys little sister Kimmie is struggling to recalibrate to normal life after an injury derails her ice dancing career and Stevens best friend Dustin is madly and onesidedly in love with Kimmie

As her friends struggle with the pitfalls of ordinary teenage life Anna always seems to be able to sail gracefully above it all That isuntil the night she meets Alexia Count Vronsky at Grand Central A notorious playboy who has bounced around boarding schools and who lives for his own pleasure Alexia is everything Anna is not But he has never been in love until he meets Anna and maybe she hasnt either As Alexia and Anna are pulled irresistibly together she has to decide how much of her life she is willing to let go for the chance to be with him And when a shocking revelation threatens to shatter their relationship she is forced to question if she has ever known herself at all

Dazzlingly opulent and emotionally riveting Anna K A Love Story is a brilliant reimagining of Leo Tolstoys timeless love story Anna Kareninabut above all it is a novel about the dizzying glorious heartstopping experience of first love and first heartbreak

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

Lee skillfully weaves beats of the classic Russian novel into the contemporary plot of her first YA novel but readers will need no previous knowledge of Tolstoy to appreciate the social stakes heartbreak humor and moral complexity of Anna K BookPage starred review

Anna Karenina gets a Gossip Girlinfused reboot in Lees debut YA novel which embraces the original novels vast cast and slowburn pace A twist ending will shock even the most devoted of Tolstoy fansbut thats one secret well never tell Booklist