"At the outset of this intoxicating novel, a married man and a married woman meet in a baby group, where they bond over their dislike of another of its members. They soon find that they have much more in common-including mutual attraction. For the next decade, the woman conjures a robust fantasy world in which she and the man have trysts in hotels and holiday together in Paris and Marrakech."
"Hoping to attain financial stability, she decides to capitalize on the online attention her speech receives by becoming a kind of spiritual influencer, spreading a message of "openness and transcendence and finding divinity in daily life." She finds herself leading workshops and being celebrated by fans, some of whom tattoo her words on their bodies. Ragged with grief despite her success, Lola eventually wonders whether the messages of universal love she cynically espouses may serve as a balm for her, too."
A married man and a married woman meet in a baby group and bond over mutual dislike of another member. They discover mutual attraction, but for a decade the woman sustains an elaborate imagined relationship of hotel trysts and holidays in Paris and Marrakech while both resist acting on desire and their families become friends, even forming a pandemic pod. A young, broke woman in L.A. gains social-media fame after a eulogy for a friend killed in a skateboarding accident and becomes a spiritual influencer spreading messages of openness and transcendence. She leads workshops, gains devoted fans, tattoos of her words, and wrestles with ragged grief and doubts about whether her professed universal love can heal her.
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