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"Twenty-year-old Lilja is in love. As a young university student, she is quickly smitten with the intelligent, beautiful young man from school who quotes Derrida and reads Latin and cooks balanced vegetarian meals. Before she even realizes, she's moved in with him, living in his cramped apartment, surrounded by sour towels and flat Diet Cokes. As the newfound intimacy of sharing a shower and a bed fuels her desire to please her partner, his quiet and pervasive manipulations start to unravel her. In an era of pornification, his acts of nearly imperceptible abuse continue to mount as their…

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4 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2021
    Grove Press, Black Cat · 208 pages · 9780802157393
  • Other · English · 2022
    Pan Macmillan · 9781529045550
  • Other · English · 2021
    Pan Macmillan · 208 pages · 9781529045543
  • Other · English · 2021
    Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 9780802157409
Germanic literatureMan-woman relationshipsFictionAbusive menSelfIdentity (Psychology)