At Certain Points We Touch av Lauren John Joseph

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<b>SELECTED FOR <i>STYLIST''</i>S FICTION YOU CAN''T MISS IN 2022 - ''AN ESSENTIAL READ''</b><b>NAMED AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY <i>ESQUIRE</i>, <i>STYLIST</i>, <i>SHEERLUXE </i>AND FOYLES''A stone-cold masterpiece by a shocking new talent'' OLIVIA LAING</b>It¿s four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realise that it¿s February 29th ¿ the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art, letters and memory, they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago.Ten years earlier, and our young narrator and a boy named Thomas James fall into bed with one another over the summer of their graduation. Their ensuing affair, with its violent, animal intensity and its intoxicating and toxic power play will initiate a dance of repulsion and attraction that will cross years, span continents, drag in countless victims ¿ and culminate in terrible betrayal.<i>At Certain Points We Touch