The Late Americans

‘Funny, merciless, brilliant. I loved it’ CURTIS SITTENFELD. Seamus, 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.