EAN: 9780593541500

WE DO WHAT WE DO IN THE DARK - MICHELLE HART KA...

Hart’s novel does something exceptional that few pieces of fiction have done
successfully….[H]as flashes of Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends. – New York Times An
unforgettable account of a forbidden romance.” – Nicole Dennis-Benn  author of Patsy Moving and
memorable.” – Meg Wolitzer  author of The Female Persuasion Sensual and wise.” – Tayari Jones 
author of An American MarriageA novel about a young woman’s life-altering affair with a much
older  married woman.Mallory is a freshman in college when she meets the woman. She sees her
for the first time at the university’s gym  immediately entranced by this elegant  older person
whom she later learns is married and works at the school. Before long  they begin a clandestine
affair. Self-possessed  successful  brilliant  and aloof  the woman absolutely consumes Mallory
who is still reeling from her mother’s death a few months earlier. Mallory retreats from the
rest of the world and into a relationship with this melancholy  elusive woman she admires so
much yet who can never be fully hers  solidifying a sense of solitude that has both haunted and
soothed her as long as she can remember. Years after the affair has ended  Mallory must decide
whether to stay safely in this isolation  this constructed loneliness  or to step fully into
the world and confront what the woman meant to her  for better or worse. This simmering 
unsettling debut novel reveals the consequences of desire and influence  portraying two women
whose lives have been transformed by love  loss  and secrecy.

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