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The story of talented young dancer Ly, his budding romance with the seemingly flawless Colin, and his increasingly tangled and messy relationship with his flatmate and bête noire Valerie, trespasses into increasingly murky regions of desire, consent, and self-deception. It is a daring book, one which explores how cursedly impossible it can be for one person to know another.
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