Funny, merciless, brilliant... I loved it'CURTIS SITTENFELD, bestselling author of Romantic Comedy'Taylor is a sharp chronicler'RAVEN LEILANI, author of LusterSeamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futuresIn a university town in the American Midwest, this circle of lovers and friends ask themselves: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work, love, money, dance, poetry? Is love possible without harm? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity?The author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Real Life returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women trying to work out what they want, and who they are. 'Assures Taylor's position as one of the most important novelists of his generation'GUARDIAN'Remarkable'FINANCIAL TIMES