A “bold and unflinchingly sexy” ( Vogue ) debut novel about a young woman who follows her
desires into a world of pleasure decadence and privilege unraveling everything she thought
she knew about sex . . . and herself. “One of the most entertaining books about sex I’ve
ever read . . . The perfect read for fans of Raven Leilani and Ottessa Moshfegh this is a book
that will have people talking.”— BuzzFeed “A sex masterpiece.”— The Guardian A Kaia
Gerber Book Club Pick • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New Yorker and The
Hollywood Reporter “Anytime I want I can forsake this dinner party and jump into real
life.”—Eve Babitz Eve has an adoring girlfriend an impulsive streak and a secret fear that
she’s wasting her brief youth with just one person. So one evening she posts some nudes online.
This is how Eve meets Olivia and through Olivia the charismatic Nathan. Despite her better
instincts the three soon begin a relationship—one that disturbs Eve as much as it enthralls
her. As each act of their complicated three-way affair unfolds across a cold and glittering
New York Eve is forced to confront the questions that most consume her: What do we bring to
sex? What does it reveal of ourselves and one another? And how do we reconcile what we want
with what we think we should want? In the way only great fiction can Acts of Service takes
between its teeth the contradictions written all over our ideas of sex and sexuality. At once
juicy and intellectually challenging sacred and profane Lillian Fishman’s riveting debut is
bold unabashed and required reading of the most pleasurable sort.
