WE DO WHAT WE DO IN THE DARK: A Novel
我們在黑暗中所做的事
內容介紹
馬洛里(Mallory)是一名大學新生，當她遇到這個女人時，她還沉浸在母親去世的哀傷中。她在大學體育館初次看到她，就立刻被她吸引了。很快地，她們相遇了，彼此被一股令人興奮的情緒所吸引，並互相分享了過去的傷痛；不久後，她們開始秘密來往。
自負、成功、才華橫溢、冷漠——這個女人所擁有的特質就是馬洛里一心追求……並且想要成為的一切。當她們在一起時，馬洛里不僅渴望這個女人，更渴望尋找自我，馬洛里從世界的其他地方退回自己的堡壘，成就了一種孤獨感，這種孤獨感從童年開始就一直困擾著她，並且持續多年。即使在婚外情結束之後。作為一個成年人，馬洛里必須決定她要安全地與世隔絕；抑或是完全融入這個世界，去面對這個女人對她的意義以及她們的關係如何塑造了她，無論是好是壞。
馬洛里的生活發生了變化，在失去和愛之間，以及在忍受兩者的同時追尋自己是誰。在這部令人動容的處女作中，影響、痴迷和仰望的複雜性揭示了慾望及其後果，並如何改變了某人的生活軌跡...
作者介紹
奧普拉雜誌《O》的助理圖書編輯。她的小說曾刊登於Joyland和Electric Architecture上，她還為 Catapult、Nylon、the Rumpus和The New Yorker撰寫了非虛構類文章。她在羅格斯大學紐瓦克分校取得小說碩士學位。
書評
“Hart has written a realistic world where women do all the talking, to each other, and rarely about the men in their lives.... Hart’s novel does something exceptional that few pieces of fiction have done successfully: She presents the older married professor as not only a complicated figure worthy of desire and suspicion, but makes her a woman too.... We Do What We Do in the Dark has flashes of Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends, or Halle Butler’s The New Me. Sometimes it’s erotic, sometimes it’s devastating. Maybe this is what the new erotic thriller has morphed into in literature.... [T]he writing always crackles, written by someone who clearly knows what it’s like to desire another woman in ways you just barely understand." –New York Times
“Hart debuts with a transfixing queer coming-of-age novel about a woman’s affair with a much older professor….. Mallory’s intense interiority and self-consciousness will remind readers of Sally Rooney’s work, and Hart’s prose is delicate and piercing. This is auspicious and breathtaking.” – Publishers Weekly *STARRED review*
“Michelle Hart’s first novel is a haunting study of solitude and connection, moving and memorable.”– Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion and The Interestings
“Seductive and lyrical with poetic detail, this is an unforgettable account of a forbidden romance made extraordinary by Hart's precision and lyrical touch. A compulsive read that satisfies and haunts.”– Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Patsy and Here Comes the Sun
“Michelle Hart’s coming-of-age novel skillfully depicts forbidden romance and the shame it can foster.” –Time
“An electric debut.” – Marie Claire
“It is a rare debut that exhibits the authority of voice and vision that Michelle Hart gives us in We Do What We Do In The Dark.”– Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood
“A gorgeous storyteller, Hart is gifted with a poet’s precision, blending image and idea. Sensual and wise, this novel channels the melancholic exhilaration of dangerous love.”– Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage
“A beautiful book so filled with sharp longing and perfectly phrased vulnerability that I read it in a reverent hush.”– Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby
“Reading this brilliant book is like holding a fierce yet trembling bird in your cupped hand, every page causes a tremble in your heart. You can’t put it down.”– Akhil Sharma, author of Family Life
海外授權
UK & BC (Tinder Press)