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YOU CAN'T STAY HERE FOREVER
Desperate to obliterate her past, a young widow flees California for the French Riviera in this compelling debut, a tale of loss, rebirth, modern friendship, and romance that blends Sally Rooney's wryness and psychological insight with Emma Straub's gorgeous scene-setting and rich relationships.
Just days after her young, handsome husband dies in a car accident, Ellie Huang discovers that he had a mistress --one of her own colleagues at a prestigious San Francisco law firm. Acting on impulse --or is it grief? rage? Probably all three --Ellie cashes in Ian's life insurance policy for an extended stay at the luxurious Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France. Accompanying her is her free-spirited best friend, Mable Chou.
Ellie hopes that the five-star resort on the French Riviera, with its stunning clientele and floral-scented cocktails, will be a heady escape from the real world. And at first it is. She and Mable meet an intriguing couple, Fauna and Robbie, and as their poolside chats roll into wine-soaked dinners, the four become increasingly intimate. But the sunlit getaway soon turns into a reckoning for Ellie, as long-simmering tensions and uncomfortable truths swirl to the surface.
Taking the reader from San Francisco to the gilded luxury of the south of France, You Can't Stay Here Forever is a sharply funny and exciting debut that explores the slippery nature of marriage, the push and pull between friends, and the interplay of race and privilege, seen through the eyes of a young Asian American woman.
Katherine Lin is a Bay Area attorney and writer. A graduate of Northwestern University (2011) and Stanford Law School (2014), Katherinecurrently represents low-income tenants as a staff attorney and clinical supervisor at a clinic at Berkeley Law School. This is her debut novel
Just days after her young, handsome husband dies in a car accident, Ellie Huang discovers that he had a mistress --one of her own colleagues at a prestigious San Francisco law firm. Acting on impulse --or is it grief? rage? Probably all three --Ellie cashes in Ian's life insurance policy for an extended stay at the luxurious Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France. Accompanying her is her free-spirited best friend, Mable Chou.
Ellie hopes that the five-star resort on the French Riviera, with its stunning clientele and floral-scented cocktails, will be a heady escape from the real world. And at first it is. She and Mable meet an intriguing couple, Fauna and Robbie, and as their poolside chats roll into wine-soaked dinners, the four become increasingly intimate. But the sunlit getaway soon turns into a reckoning for Ellie, as long-simmering tensions and uncomfortable truths swirl to the surface.
Taking the reader from San Francisco to the gilded luxury of the south of France, You Can't Stay Here Forever is a sharply funny and exciting debut that explores the slippery nature of marriage, the push and pull between friends, and the interplay of race and privilege, seen through the eyes of a young Asian American woman.
Katherine Lin is a Bay Area attorney and writer. A graduate of Northwestern University (2011) and Stanford Law School (2014), Katherinecurrently represents low-income tenants as a staff attorney and clinical supervisor at a clinic at Berkeley Law School. This is her debut novel
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Published 2023-06-01 by HarperCollins |