Product Description: Unsettling, beautiful, and laced with dark humor and tenderness, The Answer and Other Love Stories explores the inner lives of people who live as neighbors, pass each other on the street, and work side by side. Whether a man who is subtly altered by the accident that could have taken his life, or another who copes with fire and loss by rejecting the world he knows, or the woman who keeps her brand-new car in her garage without ever once letting it see the light of day, this novel tells the stories of people dislocated from the worlds in which they find themselves and prompts readers to ask themselves how well they really know themselves and those around them...read more

A remarkably candid, coming-of-age debut novel recounts the pains and joys of first love and the end of innocence for the young teenage narrator as she copes with the transition between childhood and adulthood, parents, friends, and the twenty-seven-year-old man who transforms her life. Original.

Sex with an older man, parents who don't understand, politics in the playground, blowjobs behind the bike-sheds, skinning up in the schoolyard. It's what happens when you reach a certain age. Just the hormones kicking in.