When I reach for a backlist title (especially from the 80s and 90s) it’s with a hope to find a book like this. Tonally resonate and structurally unique. It’s so free from our modern “MFA novels” and really makes you think about craft and what a “book” can be.

Asa is Dinah’s married boss who she starts a situationship with (for months they only kiss, tender and sloppily) And Dinah is open with these facts and their moral quandary. She proposes this: that she wants to discern why Asa is so distant. The middle of the book is her imagined, third-person narrative of Asa’s youth and his friendship with a beautiful boy named Reuben. 

Someone reprint this asap!!