Sag Harbor-based author Hilary Thayer Hamann’s novel “Anthropology of an American Girl” was self-published in 2003 but a re-edited version published by Random House was released on May 25 2010. Hamann is a former student of Sag Harbor Elementary and East Hampton High School, and the East End area plays a prominent role in her semi-autobiographical novel. “Anthropology” follows the story of Evie, from her teenage experiences growing up on the East End through adulthood.
I love Mann’s devotion to time and space—the characters, the reader’s, his own. This book is epic but never dull. It’s intoxicating but relaxing, like a glass of fine wine.
Self-published in 2003, Hilary Thayer Hamann’s Anthropology of an American Girl touched a nerve among readers, who identified with the sexual and intellectual awakening of its heroine, a young woman on the brink of adulthood. A moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamann’s first novel follows Evel…