The Adult

The Adult

Paperback (14 May 2024)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 care-fully 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 threat-ens 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 one-self from the expectations of others. Bronwyn Fischer is an immensely talented new writer to watch.

Book information

ISBN: 9781643756295
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Imprint: Algonquin Books
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Language: English
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 299g
Height: 208mm
Width: 138mm
Spine width: 21mm