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From Amazon:
An addictively gripping coming-of-age story about an all-consuming, insidious love affair between a college freshman and a mysterious older woman, from an unforgettable new voice in fiction
Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived at her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for the big, impersonal city. Everyone she encounters seems to know exactly who they are. She reads advice listicles and watches videos online and thinks about how to fit in, how to really become someone, whoever that might be.
And then she meets Nora, an older woman who takes an unexpected interest in her, and is drawn unstoppably into Nora’s orbit. She begins spending more and more of her time at Nora’s perfect, tidy home in her beautiful, quiet world. Natalie lies to her floormates about her absence, inventing a fake off-campus boyfriend, and carefully protects this sacred, adult relationship. This only deepens her obsession, even as she comes to suspect Nora is hiding something. As the secrets multiply and the intensity of the romance threatens to overwhelm her, Natalie realizes that the new, adult identity she had imagined for herself is far from the one she’s actually coming to know.
With atmospheric, electric prose that captures the anxiety and emotional intensity of young adulthood like never before, The Adult is about sex, yearning, poetry, and learning to free oneself from the expectations of others. Bronwyn Fischer is an immensely talented new writer to watch.
But if it were about a 9 year old girl and an old man named Steve who notices her early budding breasts and licks his lips in feeble desire you’d be cool with him getting off on her, because she looked older. He shouldn’t feel guilty right? The double standard needs to end, at least the confused lesbian had a say but the 9 year old cannot tell you to stop the filthy looks and fantasy fapping to her.
You’re the one publishing erotic fanfiction about me.
Rent free.
Love the one eye sign! Yeesh. Probably on every public school required reading for third graders
if you were living in my country, you would go to jail for posting this on a public space.
Nobody asked for that private info to be posted here.
What point are you trying to make outside avenging your hurt ego?
The motives that make one do such a thing are nothing but low.
Ohhhhhhh CA-NA-DAAA!