Mallory is a college freshman when she begins an affair with an older married woman.

Years later, long after the affair has ended, Mallory remains caught in its afterlife. It's not as simple as heartbreak and healing, but a reckoning with how one first understands intimacy. One that formed through secrecy, asymmetry always knowing you cannot fully inhabit a life with them.

Moving between Mallory’s adolescence, college years and adulthood, the novel traces queer longing, maternal loss, shame, sex and the strange persistence of formative relationships. It is unnerving in its microscope directed towards how our memory edits intimacy after the fact. It shows us how a relationship can become simultaneously smaller and more determining as time passes. 

Tinder Press, 2022. First UK edition; trade paperback, printed and bound in Australia. Very good. Light shelf and edge wear to covers; pages clean and binding sound.