As the secrets multiply and the intensity of the romance threatens to overwhelm her, Natalie realizes that the new, adult identity she had imagined for herself is far from the one she’s actually growing into. This only deepens her obsession, even as she realizes Nora is hiding something. Natalie lies to her floormates about her absence, inventing a fake off-campus boyfriend, and carefully protects this sacred, adult relationship. She begins spending more and more of her time off campus at Nora’s perfect, tidy home. She reads advice listicles and watches videos online and thinks about how to fit in, how to really become someone, whoever that might be.Īnd then she meets Nora, an older woman who takes an unexpected interest in her, and is drawn unstoppably into Nora’s orbit. Everyone she encounters seems to know exactly who they are. An addictively gripping queer coming-of-age story about an all-consuming, insidious love affair between a college freshman and a mysterious older woman, from an unforgettable new voice in fiction.Įighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived at her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for the big, impersonal city.
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