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Liquid

by Mariam Rahmani

Ambition, dating, and competing futures

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

    Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

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Ambition, dating, and competing futures

Two years after completing a PhD, the unnamed narrator finds that education has not brought the middle-class security she expected. A friend’s suggestion that she marry rich becomes the basis for a summer of one hundred dates with wealthy Angelenos. A family emergency then takes her to Tehran, where a queer love interest brings another possible future into view. The novel connects contemporary dating and economic aspiration with family ties and the contradictions of immigrant experience, as the narrator weighs the paths open to her.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in contemporary dating narratives and questions of money or class.
  • Readers seeking fiction that engages with immigrant family experience and ties to Tehran.
  • Readers interested in queer relationships and choices about the future.

Themes

Dating and economic securityImmigrant family experienceQueer loveIdentity and competing futures

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Book overview

Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

Two years after earning a PhD from UCLA, the narrator of Liquid stand achingly far from the middle-class comfort promised by her education and the successes of her immigrant parents. Jokingly, her best friend, Adam, suggests she just marry rich. Taking this challenge seriously, armed with a spreadsheet, she sets off on a whirlwind summer of one hundred dates with rich Angelenos/as.

But when a family emergency takes her to Tehran, it's a queer love interest and the possibility of a very different future that sustains her attention; now she must confront the contradictions of her life and decide which path she wants to follow.

Exploding off the page with verve and originality, Liquid delivers a modern dating tale like no other.
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