The Other's Gold

'Just the immersive read to lose yourself in' Stylist

'A gorgeous book, compulsively readable' Jesmyn Ward, author of Sing, Unburied, Sing

They loved the others more than they had loved anyone before, more than they would ever love anyone else on earth, they were certain

An accident. A kiss. A bite. Some mistakes change everything.

When Lainey, Margaret, Ji Sun and Alice find themselves sharing a dorm in their freshman year at college, it feels like fate. They are young, transcendent, in love.

As their lives become braided together, both at college and into adulthood as young mothers, their friendships are forced to endure dangerous threats - from the dark forests of their childhood, from each other, and from themselves. For each of them will make a terrible mistake.

A compulsive page-turner of a novel, The Other's Gold is a bittersweet ode to lifelong friendship, and to what it means to forgive another - even when you can't forgive yourself.

Elizabeth Ames is a graduate of the University of Michigan MFA program, where she won the Hopwood Award. Her short stories have appeared in Ninth Letter and Third Coast. She currently lives in a Harvard dormitory with her husband, toddler, and a few hundred undergraduates. This is her first novel.