''A genuine literary talent a gimlet-eyed cartographer of the human heart'' Sharlene Teo Max
is thirty a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. She's living
her best life! Or is she? The debris of years of dysphoria and failed relationships rattle
around in her head. When she tumbles down the stairs at a New Year's Eve party and wakes up in
hospital alone she decides to make some changes. First things first: a stab at good
old-fashioned heteronormativity. Enter Vincent corporate lawyer and hobby baker. His trad
friendship group may as well speak a different language to Max and his Chinese parents never
pictured their son dating a trans woman. It's uncertain terrain but Vincent cares for Max in a
way she'd long given up on as a foolish fantasy. Yet Vincent is carrying his own baggage. On
his gap year in Thailand a decade prior he vies for the attention of a gorgeous traveller
Alex with secrets of her own. Is Vincent really the new face of the Enlightened Man or will
the ghosts of his past sabotage his and Max's happiness?
