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WTF?? I feel like I missed something/ @Reggie first put this book on my radar 2 years ago & yesterday it showed up on my #Scribd feed. Told in letter form, by an unnamed narrator we are given the circumstances of what drove the young narrator to flee Israel & seek refuge in his friend Adam‘s US home. Shifty and dark, it‘s hard to root for our narrator whose actions are questionable 🤨 I think I liked this book but I hesitate to recommend it!

Like a bitter, vengeful version of Call Me By Your Name, this tight novel provides a claustrophobic account of the narrator‘s passionate, obsessive, erotic relationship. He‘s the ultimate unreliable narrator, and it‘s fascinating the way he distorts his recollection of events, intent on painting himself as the “good guy” in his own story as his actions become increasingly troubling.

For the lovers of Call Me By Your Name, this book is an equally intense look into a single character‘s psyche and portrayal of the mind games we play with the ones we love.

Whatt????!!!!! This book was great. An epistolary novel written by an unnamed narrator who leaves America after an undescribed event and flees to Israel where upon an outing at a spice farm, he meets Uzi, the type of man who makes him tell his friends when they say they are ready to go that he is staying. He and Uzi, exhusband to 2 women and father of 5, start this torrid affair. I really like this book. It had erotic heat, a lot to say about 👇🏼

Hunh. Last night his arms were parenthetical around his wife, a great secret phrase. Now tonight, this. Who knew I‘d be into punctuational-body metaphor?

“An unabashed tale that does not pull punches and looks at love‘s underside…This breathless story should only be read in one sitting. It hits hard and never lets up. Terse, brusque, etched on one‘s inner thigh with an old serrated knife.” —André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name