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‘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*

Publisher Review

A stunning debut -- Meg Mason, bestselling author of Sorrow & Bliss A whip smart, sexy, biting love story about how what unites us does not always overcome what divides us. -- Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies Funny, felt, and riveting, all at once-a story for anyone who's ever fallen in love that's less than straightforward. Cecilia Rabess is equal parts comedian and sorcerer, reminding us that none of us are (only) as we appear. -- Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin 'Everything's Fine poses incisive questions about love, identity, and the countless ways these things can both bruise and bolster one another. Cecilia Rabess has crafted an extraordinarily brave debut that's painfully real-but plain funny as hell, too.' -- Zakiya Dalila Harris, bestselling author of The Other Black Girl A subtle, ironic, wise state-of-the-nation novel, sharp enough to draw blood, hidden inside a moving, intimate, sincere and very real love story - or vice versa. -- Nick Hornby A brilliantly observed novel about what it means to lose yourself as a young woman. So funny but also incredibly true -- Nina Stibbe, author of * Love, Nina * Original, confident, hilarious -- Sathnam Sanghera, author of * Empireland * Both entertaining and wise, a page-turner that explores race, class, sex, and ambition and how love and compromise work (or don't) in our current political climate. -- Jennifer Close, bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses A hot book on a hot topic, well worth reading and arguing about * Kirkus *