Naoise dolan exciting times review5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() In stylish, uncluttered prose, Naoise Dolan dissects the personal and financial transactions that make up a life-and announces herself as a singular new voice. Politically alert, heartbreakingly raw, and dryly funny, Exciting Times is thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love. ![]() Should Ava return to the easy compatibility of her life with Julian or take a leap into the unknown with Edith? Ava wants to be her-and wants her.Īnd then Julian writes to tell Ava he is coming back to Hong Kong…. A Hong Kong–born lawyer, striking and ambitious, Edith takes Ava to the theater and leaves her tulips in the hallway. ![]() But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than "I like you a great deal."Įnter Edith. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer.Īva, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. ![]()
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