Adam Ross, "Playworld: A Novel" (Knopf, 2025)

New Books in Literature · Feb 6, 2025 · 1h 4m

“In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happened to me that year, it didn’t seem strange at the time.”Griffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and the pressure of high school at New York's elite Boyd Prep—along with the increasingly compromising demands of his wrestling coach—he's teetering on the edge of collapse.Then comes Naomi Shah, twenty-two years Griffin’s senior…