On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musicians fill the night, college professor Alok encounters a mysterious stranger with a bizarre confession and an extraordinary story. This story, which includes Nelson’s account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making. Of all the titles I gave him—Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding, Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve, Brenda Wineapple’s Ecstatic Nation—Tim O’Brien had been tossed in as an afterthought.

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If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page. Cat is quickly drawn into Marlena’s orbit and as she catalogues a litany of firsts—first drink, first cigarette, first kiss, first pill—Marlena’s habits harden and calcify.As beautifully written as it is devastating, this young neurosurgeon’s memoir of dying of cancer reflects on the nature of a meaningful life—and will have you reexamining your own relationships and attention to gratitude.

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As for the title, the "triangle of sadness" is the term given to the frown lines between your eyebrows.

She told me that she and a friend gave each other a copy for Christmas and have been reading it together. In their world, white naughts and black Crosses simply don’t mix—and they certainly don’t fall in love. But then she meets Derek, and their intensifying relationship brings out contradicting sides, the best in Brooke and the worst in Derek.