The Flock
A Novel
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Ellen Bar
For the six best friends who affectionately refer to themselves as The Flock, the elite American Ballet School (ABS) is a new beginning. In their hometowns, they were ugly ducklings; at ABS they are the chosen ones. And yet getting into the Company is the easy part. Ballet might require physical and mental agility, but life is a dance as well—and offstage, there is no choreography to guide them.
Twenty-five years after they arrived as sixteen-year-old students, the members of The Flock have been driven apart by success, failure, and an appalling but unproven accusation. Some have left ballet completely: Maria is a struggling new mom. Nadine is a mental health influencer peddling “ballet survivor” wisdom who would like nothing more than to burn it all down. Anthony and Emmie have made it to the top as Principal dancers, but for all his success, Anthony can’t seem to find the love he yearns for. Blake is the newly appointed Head of ABS with a serious case of impostor syndrome, while the once beloved Jesse is now a pariah.
When Emmie, after surviving a harrowing health ordeal, invites them all to her retirement performance, everyone wants an excuse to avoid it—but when one of the friends dies under mysterious circumstances the day before, the remaining members of the Flock must gather not for a celebration, but to reexamine their lives and the choices they’ve made.
Told in two timelines, The Flock follows the group as they revisit their memories, reconnect with each other in a changed moral landscape, and reconsider everything they thought they knew about friendship, love, and forgiveness.
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“Ellen Bar writes about friendship with the precision of a choreographer and the tenderness of someone who understands that our earliest loves—be they romantic, platonic, artistic—never really leave our bodies. At once an unputdownable mystery and a vivid and specific portrait of ambition, grief, and the families we assemble for ourselves. A book full of intelligence, heart, and forward motion.”—Lena Dunham, New York Times bestselling author of Famesick
“A rare and dazzling novel about friendship, art, and ambition in the vein of Rona Jaffe, Mary McCarthy, and Meg Wolitzer, Ellen Bar’s debut is a modern classic. Part mystery, part backstage pass, The Flock—like any great ballet—expertly balances character and musicality with movement and urgency. A truly bravura performance that will stay with you long after the curtain has dropped or the last page has turned.”—Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author of Saltwater
“Ellen Bar writes with nuance and compassion, whether she’s showing us the heat and devotion of ballet dancers in training, or the different ways a career in dance can implode, transform, or triumph. The Flock takes an insider’s look at a singular art form—in all its power and vulnerability—and uses it to offer a beautifully compelling portrait of loyalty, responsibility, and the ways deep friendships are forged and tested. Brava!”—Meg Howrey, author of They're Going to Love You
“The Flock is a gripping meditation on friendship, and a dramatic, behind-the-curtain peek into the cloistered world of professional dance. It’s the kind of raw, true-to-life perspective that only an insider, like former New York City Ballet soloist Ellen Bar, can provide. She’s delivered a powerful debut that mines the costs, and the riches, of a life wholly dedicated to the arts.”—Nathan Englander, author of For The Relief of Unbearable Urges
“The Flock cracked my jaded heart wide open. It takes readers from the dreamy pretend-adulthood of life at an elite NYC school for ballet to the crushing realities and epic triumphs of real adulthood, following characters who are now as real to me as my own friends. I’ve missed them ever since I finished this book, which I immediately wanted to pick up and start again. I cried when I reached the last page, mourning my own lost youth but oddly reassured by the idea that midlife is not too late to begin life over again. Ellen Bar’s masterful prose never gets in the way of her story, which takes readers deep inside a backstage world most of us will never see. Juicy, thrilling, poignant, funny, and deeply, universally human.”—Emily Gould, author of And The Heart Says Whatever, Friendship, and Perfect Tunes
“A rare and dazzling novel about friendship, art, and ambition in the vein of Rona Jaffe, Mary McCarthy, and Meg Wolitzer, Ellen Bar’s debut is a modern classic. Part mystery, part backstage pass, The Flock—like any great ballet—expertly balances character and musicality with movement and urgency. A truly bravura performance that will stay with you long after the curtain has dropped or the last page has turned.”—Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author of Saltwater
“Ellen Bar writes with nuance and compassion, whether she’s showing us the heat and devotion of ballet dancers in training, or the different ways a career in dance can implode, transform, or triumph. The Flock takes an insider’s look at a singular art form—in all its power and vulnerability—and uses it to offer a beautifully compelling portrait of loyalty, responsibility, and the ways deep friendships are forged and tested. Brava!”—Meg Howrey, author of They're Going to Love You
“The Flock is a gripping meditation on friendship, and a dramatic, behind-the-curtain peek into the cloistered world of professional dance. It’s the kind of raw, true-to-life perspective that only an insider, like former New York City Ballet soloist Ellen Bar, can provide. She’s delivered a powerful debut that mines the costs, and the riches, of a life wholly dedicated to the arts.”—Nathan Englander, author of For The Relief of Unbearable Urges
“The Flock cracked my jaded heart wide open. It takes readers from the dreamy pretend-adulthood of life at an elite NYC school for ballet to the crushing realities and epic triumphs of real adulthood, following characters who are now as real to me as my own friends. I’ve missed them ever since I finished this book, which I immediately wanted to pick up and start again. I cried when I reached the last page, mourning my own lost youth but oddly reassured by the idea that midlife is not too late to begin life over again. Ellen Bar’s masterful prose never gets in the way of her story, which takes readers deep inside a backstage world most of us will never see. Juicy, thrilling, poignant, funny, and deeply, universally human.”—Emily Gould, author of And The Heart Says Whatever, Friendship, and Perfect Tunes
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