The Adult
Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived for her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown. Everyone she encounters seems to know exactly who they are. Natalie doesn't know what she wants. She reads advice listicles and watches videos online and thinks about how to fit in, how to really become someone. Then she meets Nora, an older woman who takes an unexpected interest in her. Natalie is drawn magnetically into Nora's orbit. She begins spending more and more of her time off campus at Nora's home, enveloped by the intensity of her feelings and the version of adulthood she imagines Nora leads. Worried about how her floormates will react to news of her relationship with a woman, Natalie explains her absence by inventing a secret boyfriend called Paul. But when it becomes clear that Nora is lying, too, her secrets begin to take an alarming shape in Natalie's life, even as Natalie tries to look away.
  • Publisher: Vintage Canada
  • Publication date: 07/05/2024
  • ISBN: 9781039002975
  • Page extent: 312
  • Format: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 204 mm x 133 mm
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