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Everything's Fine
Cecilia Rabess
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Description for Everything's Fine
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'Acutely smart' - Elizabeth Day, author of Magpie
'Completely addictive' – Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones and the Six
'Funny, sexy, unafraid, completely unputdownable' – India Knight, author of Darling
An instantly addictive should-they, shouldn't they romance set against the backdrop of New York during Trump's first presidential campaign, this book will make you question everything you thought you knew.
Jess first meets Josh at university. He is an entitled white guy in chinos, ready to inherit the world. She is almost always the only Black woman in their class. And she’s not expecting to ... Read moreinherit anything.
After graduation, Jess and Josh end up working at the same bank. They share lunch, they share sparring matches, they share ambitions. And suddenly they’re sleeping together . . .
Cecilia Rabess' Everything's Fine is hilarious, heartbreaking and impossible to put down.
'Spectacular' – Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Romantic Comedy
'Addictive and extremely funny' –Jenny Colgan, author of The Summer Skies
'Stunning’ – Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss
'Plain funny as hell' – Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl
'I loved this. One Day with teeth' - Naomi Wood, author of This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
'Our most explosive discussion yet . . . The PERFECT book club book' – Casual Readers Book Club
*A Times 100 Best Books of the Summer and Guardian Book of the Year*
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London, United Kingdom
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About Cecilia Rabess
Cecilia Rabess previously worked as a data scientist at Google and as an associate at Goldman Sachs. Her non-fiction has been featured in McSweeneys, FiveThirtyEight, Fast Company and FlowingData, among other places. Everything's Fine is her debut novel.
Reviews for Everything's Fine
A stunning debut
Meg Mason, bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss Truly brilliant . . . incredible dialogue and characters so real that I felt preoccupied with them when I wasn't reading. I couldn't have loved it more
Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Romantic Comedy Does love conquer all? Does it now? Did it ever? These are questions Cecilia ... Read moreRabess asks in her nimble, discerning debut . . . The ending of Everything’s Fine is one of the best I’ve read in years
The New York Times
A whip smart, sexy, biting love story about how what unites us does not always overcome what divides us
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies A subtle, ironic, wise state-of-the-nation novel, sharp enough to draw blood, hidden inside a moving, intimate, sincere and very real love story - or vice versa
Nick Hornby Everything's Fine poses incisive questions about love, identity, and the countless ways these things can both bruise and bolster one another. Cecilia Rabess has crafted an extraordinarily brave debut that's painfully real—but plain funny as hell, too
Zakiya Dalila Harris, bestselling author of The Other Black Girl Do not have anything planned for the day you start this because it is impossible to put down and will provoke discussion with anyone else that has read it. Book Clubs – this is your next pick . . . deeply funny, razor sharp
Glamour Magazine
Addictive and extremely funny
Jenny Colgan, Guardian, Five of the best romance books of 2023 Original, confident, hilarious
Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland A love affair that turns inferno.... You'll be riveted
People Magazine
Warm, funny and romantic but it’s also sharp and full of nuance
ELLE
An assured debut that provides an honest look into the fraught terrain of a mixed-race, mixed-politics romance . . . Rabess is at her best when she is shining a light on the subtle mores that exclude Black women from conventions of desirability
Guardian
A brilliantly observed novel about what it means to lose yourself as a young woman. So funny but also incredibly true
Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina With the 2016 election looming, a volatile cultural and political landscape forces Jess and Josh to reckon with a relationship defined by their differences, and they find that the closer you are to someone the harder it is to villainize them
The Washington Post
Fans of Such A Fun Age will enjoy this nuanced, witty read that’s about race, privilege and loving someone but not always liking them
Red Magazine, 10 best books in June 2023
Funny, felt, and riveting, all at once—a story for anyone who’s ever fallen in love that’s less than straightforward. Cecilia Rabess is equal parts comedian and sorcerer, reminding us that none of us are (only) as we appear
Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin Both entertaining and wise, a page-turner that explores race, class, sex, and ambition and how love and compromise work (or don’t) in our current political climate
Jennifer Close, bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses Clean, crisp and charismatic
Hena J. Bryan, Bookish Babe A hot book on a hot topic, well worth reading and arguing about
Kirkus
A breezy yet unsettling debut… Rabess’s humor is on-point, and the chemistry between the leads is electric; each scene involving them is fraught with a double-edged sword
Publisher's Weekly
[A] thought-provoking debut…An intriguing cliffhanger makes this an excellent pick for book clubs that enjoy rousing debate
Booklist
Rabess’s ability to sit with difficult questions should be applauded
Sunday Times
Observant, thought-provoking and sharply funny
Daily Express
Deserves to be one of the most-talked about reads of the summer
Mirror
This timely novel explores weighty topics with a clear eye and a light touch
The Scotsman
A funny, painful, poignant dissection of modern love, society and politics that delivers right through to its final lines
Marie Claire
[An] opposites-attract story bound to elicit plenty of book-club conversation
New York Post, Best books of 2023
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