First published 1987
Desperate for intimacy, a group of college students at a New England university indulge in a whirlwind of sex, drugs, and moral decay. As they careen through a world of hollow pleasures, their insatiable appetites and numbness prevent any true closeness, leading them on a vortex of self-destruction with consequences as bleak as they are inevitable.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, new-adult
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: New Hampshire
283 pages · Hardcover · Simon & Schuster
Content warnings: addiction, drug-use, sexual-content