The Late Americans

‘Funny merciless brilliant . . . I loved it’ CURTIS SITTENFELDSeamus Fyodor Ivan Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures in the new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life.In a university town a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection while they try to work out what they want and who they are.As they test their own desires in a series of relationships these young men and women ask themselves and each other: what is the right thing to stake a life on? Work love money dance poetry? And what does true connection look like in an age of precarity?‘A constellation of characters shines in [this] campus-set tale of aspiring artists’ Financial Times‘Intimate hilarious poignant . . . A gorgeously written novel of youth’s promise’ Oprah Daily‘Elegant and razor-sharp’ EMMA CLINE* A Daily Telegraph and FT Book of the Year *