Eleanor Liu secretly married her boyfriend of eight months, quit her PhD program, and is now performing unauthorized research on extra lab mice. Her mother is also dead. But Eleanor knows she's fine. As she navigates her new identities—grieving daughter, wife, PhD dropout—Eleanor contemplates the meaning of family.

QUITTER is a quiet and contemplative read following the POV of three Liu women, Elanor, her mother, and her older sister. The book is reminiscent of CHEMISTRY (Weike Wang), GOODBYE, VITAMIN (Rachel Khong), DAYS OF DISTRACTION (Alexandra Chang), TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM (Yaa Gyasi), and SEA CHANGE (Gina Ghung). This type of plot-light and character-driven story with a quirky FMC that sometimes makes questionable life decisions has slowly become a genre of itself, and I'm all for this messiness