<p><b>''A seething excavation of want and human error'' Raven Leilani, author of <i>Luster</i><br><br>''Glorious, ecstatic, devastating... A gorgeous debut from a wickedly talented new author'' </b><br><b>Lauren Groff, author of <i>Florida</i></b><br><b><br>''Sultry, dark, thick with the heat of bodies and minds in sin and transgression. Incredible'' <br>Jamel Brinkley, author of <i>A Lucky Man</i></b><br><br>A thirteen-year-old girl watches her white best friend totter along the edge of a building roof; a woman who lost her child in its first trimester finds empathy and horror in the waters of a city aquarium; a mother protects her teen daughter from a predatory love interest by taking revenge over a very French supper; and two estranged siblings take a road-trip with their dead father''s ashes - rediscovering one another and reckoning with all the ways that trust can be betrayed and love can be redeemed. <br><br>Set in the suburbs and the cities of the modern world but about the anci