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Author: Thora Dahlke
Genres: Literary Fiction
Edie is twenty-six, stuck in a job she hates, and so afraid of being seen wanting anything that she has stopped leaving her flat unless she has to. When her best friend Daphne flies off to Nice for six months, extracting a promise that Edie won't spend the whole time rotting alone, Edie forces herself out to a bar and is bought a drink by a couple in the corner booth: Gwen, an intimacy coordinator with a gift for making everyone feel like the only person in the room, and Minjee, a bartender with a tongue as sharp as her eyeliner. What starts as one drunk, terrifying night becomes something none of them planned for, as Edie is drawn into a relationship with both of them and has to decide whether she can survive being wanted, let alone loved, in front of people who might actually see her. Told partly through Edie's late-night emails to Daphne, who reads every confession from a beach three countries away and writes back exactly what Edie needs and nothing that she wants to hear, Angel Face is a tender, very funny, unflinching novel about desire, shame, and what it costs to stop hiding.
For readers of: Liv Little's Rosewater, Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends, and Heather O'Neill's The Lonely Hearts Hotel.
Author: Thora Dahlke
Genres: Literary Fiction
Edie is twenty-six, stuck in a job she hates, and so afraid of being seen wanting anything that she has stopped leaving her flat unless she has to. When her best friend Daphne flies off to Nice for six months, extracting a promise that Edie won't spend the whole time rotting alone, Edie forces herself out to a bar and is bought a drink by a couple in the corner booth: Gwen, an intimacy coordinator with a gift for making everyone feel like the only person in the room, and Minjee, a bartender with a tongue as sharp as her eyeliner. What starts as one drunk, terrifying night becomes something none of them planned for, as Edie is drawn into a relationship with both of them and has to decide whether she can survive being wanted, let alone loved, in front of people who might actually see her. Told partly through Edie's late-night emails to Daphne, who reads every confession from a beach three countries away and writes back exactly what Edie needs and nothing that she wants to hear, Angel Face is a tender, very funny, unflinching novel about desire, shame, and what it costs to stop hiding.
For readers of: Liv Little's Rosewater, Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends, and Heather O'Neill's The Lonely Hearts Hotel.