Hourglass: A Novel

**A FEBRUARY 2023 INDIE NEXT PICK**
**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE**
**A short, lyrical debut novel about love, loss, work, time, and the unquenchable desire for connection with others—for fans of Jenny Offill, Mieko Kawakami, David Szalay and Sheila Heti**
*The second time you came, we went from bar to bar to bar. It made the city feel smaller. Like a map we were folding to the size of a stamp. We were good at that. We could have fit an entire universe inside a matchbox.*
Exquisitely crafted, richly imagined, and as funny as it is moving, *Hourglass* is an unusual and uniquely told love story. Turning time upside down, it combs the wreckage of personal heartbreak for something universal and asks what it means to lose what you love.
**"This book is such a sneaky head f*ck—an epic poem in an ancient style about the brutalities of modern love, a masculine interrogation of feminine heartbreak, a really beautiful way to spend an evening"—Lena Dunham**