Funny, merciless, brilliant . . . I loved it CURTIS SITTENFELDSeamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures, in the new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life.In a university town, a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection while they try to work out what they want, and who they are.As they test their own desires in a series of relationships, these young men and women ask themselves and each other: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? And what does true connection look like, in an age of precarity? A constellation of characters shines in [this] campus-set tale of aspiring artists Financial Times Intimate, hilarious, poignant . . . A gorgeously written novel of youth s promise Oprah Daily Elegant and razor-sharp EMMA CLINE* A Daily Telegraph and FT Book of the Year *