{"product_id":"exciting-times-book-naoise-dolan-9780062968746","title":"Exciting Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This debut novel about an Irish\u003cbr\u003e expat millennial teaching English and finding romance in Hong Kong is half\u003cbr\u003e Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy Crazy Rich Asians high\u003cbr\u003e living--and guaranteed to please.\" --Vogue \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The New York Times Book Review * Vogue * TIME * Marie Claire * Elle * O, the Oprah Magazine * The Washington Post * Esquire * Harper's Bazaar * Bustle * PopSugar * Refinery 29 * LitHub * Debutiful\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAva, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJulian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than \"I like you a great deal.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnter Edith. A Hong Kong-born lawyer, striking and ambitious, Edith takes Ava to the theater and leaves her tulips in the hallway. Ava wants to be her--and wants her. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd then Julian writes to tell Ava he is coming back to Hong Kong... Should Ava return to the easy compatibility of her life with Julian or take a leap into the unknown with Edith?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitically alert, heartbreakingly raw, and dryly funny, Exciting Times is thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love. In stylish, uncluttered prose, Naoise Dolan dissects the personal and financial transactions that make up a life--and announces herself as a singular new voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49529784828177,"sku":"GOR013269708","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49796447928593,"sku":"CIN0062968742VG","price":4.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49981840785681,"sku":"CIN0062968742G","price":4.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51821720568081,"sku":"CIN0062968742A","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51857586553105,"sku":"GOR013556343","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0062968742.jpg?v=1751258254","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/exciting-times-book-naoise-dolan-9780062968746","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}