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ACTS OF DESPERATION
By: Megan Nolan
Back Bay Books
October 2022
On Sale: September 27, 2022
288 pages
ISBN: 031642983X
EAN: 9780316429832
Kindle: B08CDX3HZW
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Coming of Age | Women's Fiction Psychological
In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her…
Part breathless confession, part lucid critique, Acts of Desperation renders a consciousness split between rebellion and submission, between escaping degradation and eroticizing it, between loving and being lovable. With unsettling, electric precision, Nolan dissects one of life’s most elusive mysteries: Why do we want what we want, and how do we want it?
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