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Back home after abruptly leaving graduate school in London, Erin numbly teeters through the shock of losing her best friend to an accident she doesn't want to talk about--especially with her mother. But it's easy to slip into the rhythms of Belfast, the lazy city; she takes an au pair job and bookends her days with early morning runs along the Lagan and hazy afters at a bar her old friend tends. In quick succession, she meets an American man who is looking to get lost, and falls back in with the local boy who both comforts and confounds her. But it is her unlikely, secretive relationship with faith that offers a different kind of sanctuary. Wandering into empty churches, gazing with mascara-smudged eyes at the stained-glass windows, Erin finally, gingerly, confronts herself.
Jeremy Gordon is a senior editor at The Atlantic.
A wonderful book about how hanging out in Belfast with your old friends makes for the best time — but in all seriousness, if you’ve ever enjoyed @RachelConnoll14’s perceptive and witty writing, you simply must order her debut novel LAZY CITY https://t.co/nAMD7yg6vV
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Very excited to reveal the beautiful cover for LAZY CITY by @RachelConnoll14 💚 Coming 24 August and available for preorder now! https://t.co/uQRHO1K0Lb https://t.co/8M5H0zufI1
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@smswrites In October, keep an eye out for BRUTALITIES by Margo Steines (debut memoir about the pain/pleasure/limits of human bodies), and LAZY CITY by Rachel Connolly (beautiful debut that grapples with grief, loss, love, and faith). lmk if you want copies of either! 🫶🏼