'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*
In 2011, Jess is a senior at an Ivy League college. She drinks far too much, she dates the wrong men and spends her days adopting the values of her privileged friends whilst painfully aware that she isn't like them - all too often the only Black woman in the room. Jess craves belonging and acceptance, but she's fed up with the casual racism, the class debates about affirmative action, and she's particularly fed up with one know-it-all, Josh, who isn't shy about broadcasting his infuriating and insensitive opinions.
The years turn and Jess and Josh move in and out of each other's lives, working at the same investment bank, and slowly, tentatively forming a mismatched friendship. He is sure of his place in the world, she is just beginning to discover hers - but the momentum of being young and, soon, in love propels their relationship forward. That is, until 2016. Trump is approaching office and the cultural landscape is shifting. Jess is forced to finally ask whether they are meant to be, and if, in fact, everything's fine.
