{"product_id":"disappoint-me-9780593977880","title":"Disappoint Me","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"One of the sharpest and most emotionally vulnerable novels on the complicated dynamic of dating cisgender straight men as a trans woman.\"--\u003ci\u003eAutostraddle\u003c\/i\u003e (7 New Trans Novels to Read this Summer)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Dinan writes like some kind of demigod. Her fictions make thinkable new realities for how we live and what we might expect from each other.\"--Torrey Peters, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDetransition, Baby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (SO FAR): \u003ci\u003eElle, Vogue, BookRiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou can fall in love with an outline, you can even make a home with one, but there will come a time where you can't deny the bones their flesh. A person is no fewer than two things.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThirty years old with a lifetime of dysphoria and irritating exes rattling around in her head, Max is plagued by a deep dissatisfaction. Shouldn't these be the best years of her life? Why doesn't it feel that way? After taking a spill down the stairs at a New Year's Eve party, she decides to make some changes. First: a stab at good old-fashioned heteronormativity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMax thinks she's found the answer in Vincent. While his corporate colleagues, trad friends, and Chinese parents never pictured their son dating a trans woman, he cares for Max in a way she'd always dismissed as a foolish fantasy. But he is also carrying baggage of his own. When the fall-out of a decades-old entanglement resurfaces, Max must decide what forgiveness really means. Can we be more than our worst mistakes? Is it possible to make peace with the past? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFunny, sharp, and poignant, \u003ci\u003eDisappoint Me \u003c\/i\u003eis a sweeping exploration of love, loss, trans panic, race, millennial angst, and the relationships--familial and romantic--that make us who we are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicola Dinan \u003c\/b\u003egrew up in Hong Kong and Malaysia and now lives in London. Bellies, her debut, was nominated for six literary prizes and won the Polari First Book Prize. \u003ci\u003eDisappoint Me\u003c\/i\u003e, her second novel, won the New Adult Book Prize.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dial Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51986418663698,"sku":"9780593977880","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9cc65a21-b836-4188-b36f-1989340bf059.jpg?v=1769591310","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/disappoint-me-9780593977880","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}