From the author of Dear Marcus comes a breathtaking novel about a
fated love affair that crosses the divides of race and class.
Rashid is a young Black man from Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, with a complicated
life. Looking for an escape from a neighborhood few ever leave, he finds
it in Rachel--married, twenty years his senior, and the daughter of a
Holocaust survivor. It begins with a flirtation and a tryst. It becomes
an intense romance, exhilarating and enriching, that defies the
expectations of Rashid's friends and family. What draws Rachel to Rashid
is his curiosity, his need for intimacy, and his adoration--everything
lacking in her crumbling marriage. But as the fault lines of their
relationship become more prevalent, so do the inevitable choices one
makes when falling in love.