RECOMMENDED BY VULTURE OPRAH DAILY W MAG HEY ALMA DEBUTIFUL AUTOSTRADDLE BOOKRIOT AND
BOOKBUB “[T]he funniest debut book of the year.” — Debutiful For readers of Emma Cline and
Melissa Broder "a brilliant novel about becoming more the person you' re meant to be "
following an untethered sardonic young woman who falls for an older man and begins to lose
herself (Roxane Gay). Aspiring writer and all-around naive person Allison expected her life
to finally take shape when she moved to Los Angeles. After years grieving her brother’s
untimely death and allowing her mercurial father’s feelings and desires to infect her own she
feels ready to become the main character in her own story again. But in LA as with anywhere
else she’s rudderless unable to write and barely scraping by as an English teacher. So when
she has a serendipitous run in with famed radio personality Reid Steinman an idol of her
father’s and her late brother’s she' s eager to see where their relationship might go and
who she might become. Caught in his thrall she falls back into her old self-effacing patterns
struggling to maintain the boundaries of her own identity. Suddenly an unanticipated lifeline
emerges: an intoxicating tryst with Reid' s adult daughter Maddie. She’s forced to balance
her romance with Reid with her gnawing desire for the intoxicatingly charming Maddie as it
becomes increasingly evident that she and Allison' s late brother share more than a few
qualities. Through candid self-awareness keen observations and deliciously wry humor
First Time Long Time asks what happens to a young woman’s goals when she becomes involved
with a famous man whose needs seem so much louder than her own? And how might she move forward
when so much in her past remains unresolved?
