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WE DO WHAT WE DO IN THE DARK
By: Michelle Hart
A Novel
Riverhead Books
May 2022
On Sale: May 3, 2022
Featuring: Mallory
224 pages
ISBN: 0593329678
EAN: 9780593329672
Kindle: B09BTBMVLC
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LGBTQ Romance | Coming of Age
Mallory is a freshman in college when she meets the woman. She sees her for the first time at the university’s gym, immediately entranced by this elegant, older person, whom she later learns is married and works at the school. Before long, they begin a clandestine affair. Self-possessed, successful, brilliant, and aloof, the woman absolutely consumes Mallory, who is still reeling from her mother’s death a few months earlier. Mallory retreats from the rest of the world and into a relationship with this melancholy, elusive woman she admires so much yet who can never be fully hers, solidifying a sense of solitude that has both haunted and soothed her as long as she can remember.
Years after the affair has ended, Mallory must decide whether to stay safely in this isolation, this constructed loneliness, or to step fully into the world and confront what the woman meant to her, for better or worse.
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