![]() ![]() ![]() As Emma listens to the locals' banter, key facts about her life story begin to emerge and the past comes bearing down on her like a freight train. Nine months ago, in unimaginable circumstances, they divorced. It was in this very room that she met Lucas a few years back, on a blind date. Emma has settled into her hometown bar for the evening. Caring about these things is not the problem. The answer is wrapped up, shrouded and ensconced in prioritization, ambition and work. It is late-night conversations and inside jokes and making love and having a child. It takes into account thousands of hours of labour on a small house, projects finished and unfinished. It has something to do with smoking cigarettes and drinking all night. ![]() People want to understand how to avoid the fall. It's a spiteful curiosity thing, schadenfreude, but also a self-preservation thing. Everyone always wants to know why relationships fail. ![]() For fans of Celeste Ng comes a transfixing debut novel about how life's small decisions can ultimately yield the most powerful consequences. ![]()
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