'A complex, beautiful coming-of-age novel...a love story unlike any I've ever read' Ali Hazelwood

'A soulful book about the politics of labor and submission' Raven Leilani

When Lili Marwan, a graduate student in economics, has an intense one-night stand with Aleksandr Petrov, a Wall Street banker two decades her senior, it finally quiets her restless mind.

At twenty-two, Lili is brilliant, guarded and opinionated beyond her years. But when a tall, dark stranger buys her a drink in a FiDi bar, she meets her match. Aleksandr is formidable, fiercely intelligent, and infuriatingly disarming. He's also two decades older than her, and the opposite of Lili in every way, from their politics to their takes on capitalism. He challenges her at every turn. And she can't stay away.

Over the course of one heady New York City summer, Lili and Aleksandr reach across the divide of their differences, finding they have startling shared experiences. Their casual arrangement quickly gives way to an unexpected intimacy, by turns breathtaking, then devastating.

As Lili struggles to understand herself and the complicated threads of her ambition, pain, and desire, she will have to decide: is the risk of loss worth the chance of something more?