Lovers XXX

Lovers XXXSet against the neon lit porn world of 1980s Los Angeles, a raw and evocative portrait of sex, friendship, and the perilous edge of liberation for two young womenfrom the author of Aesthetica. For fans of Mary Gaitskill, Emma Cline, and Rachel Kushner. Los Angeles, 1982. Jude is eighteen, newly out of reform school and hungry for more than her small town past can offer. Searching for her best friend, Winnie, she instead falls under the spell of Laird,

Amy dreams of studying art in Europe

they’re hot on the trail of the legendary Purple Pearl

from the cruel year that spawned Cat’s Eye to the Orwellian 1980s Berlin where she wrote The Handmaid’s Tale

It was as though I was chosen—marked out by the python’s kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow

a popular influencer

is a sweeping

Prepare yourself for the ultimate mind-bending marriage thriller and step inside Spyglass – if you dare – to experience a story where nothing is as it seems

about how far one woman will go to wrest back control of her life in a world determined to send her spiraling

She now serves as royal advisor to Kasa’s adopted son

absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention” (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show

Urras—defined by warring nations

and the deeper they walk