Everything's Fine
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3.9 • 7 Ratings
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
'Acutely smart' - Elizabeth Day
'Completely addictive' – Taylor Jenkins Reid
'Funny, sexy, unafraid, completely unputdownable' – India Knight
Jess first meets Josh at their Ivy League college. He is an entitled white guy in chinos, ready to inherit the world. She is almost always the only Black woman in their class. And she’s not expecting to inherit anything.
After graduation, Jess and Josh end up working at the same bank. They share lunch, they share sparring matches, they share ambitions. And suddenly they’re sleeping together . . .
Cecilia Rabess' Everything's Fine is hilarious, heartbreaking and impossible to put down.
'Spectacular' – Curtis Sittenfeld
'Addictive and extremely funny' –Jenny Colgan
'Stunning’ – Meg Mason
'Plain funny as hell' – Zakiya Dalila Harris
'Our most explosive discussion yet . . . The PERFECT book club book' – Casual Readers Book Club
*A Times 100 Best Books of the Summer and Guardian Book of the Year*
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Ostensibly a romance, Cecilia Rabess’ stunning debut descends slowly into tragedy, as star-crossed lovers Jess—a Black woman and a Democrat—and Josh—a white Republican ‘moderate’—try to hold onto their feelings for each other in the run-up to the 2016 presidential elections. On paper, they’re soulmates: their slow-burn build-up hits all the best rom-com tropes, their chemistry sizzles on the page and Rabess provides enough heart-melting detail to make their relationship feel realistic and credible. Reality, however, is the problem, and Jess is constantly trying to make her equation of Josh balance, to reconcile her love with the burden she bears for it, to make him feel the world as she feels it. Rabess illustrates the inherent inequality between Jess and Josh with the same intensity as she communicates their genuine connection with each other, making it all the more painful to experience two people who should make a perfect match consistently failing to fully align. Everything’s Fine manages to successfully communicate hundreds of years of complex history and emotions through a simple love story that will resonate deeply for those who recognise it, and may well open eyes for those who do not.
