Desperate to obliterate her past, a young widow flees California for the French Riviera in this compelling debut, a tale of loss, rebirth, modern friendship, and romance that blends Sally Rooney\'s wryness and psychological insight with Emma Straub\'s gorgeous scene-setting and rich relationships.
Taking the reader from San Francisco to the gilded luxury of the south of France, You Can\'t Stay Here Forever is a sharply funny and exciting debut that explores the slippery nature of marriage, the push and pull between friends, and the interplay of race and privilege, seen through the eyes of a young Asian American woman..
But the sunlit getaway soon turns into a reckoning for Ellie, as long-simmering tensions and uncomfortable truths swirl to the surface.
She and Mable meet an intriguing couple, Fauna and Robbie, and as their poolside chats roll into wine-soaked dinners, the four become increasingly intimate.
And at first it is.
Ellie hopes that the five-star resort on the French Riviera, with its stunning clientele and floral-scented cocktails, will be a heady escape from the real world.
Accompanying her is her free-spirited best friend, Mable Chou.
Acting on impulse--or is it grief? rage? Probably all three--Ellie cashes in Ian\'s life insurance policy for an extended Stay at the luxurious Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France.
Just days after her young, handsome husband dies in a car accident, Ellie Huang discovers that he had a mistress--one of her own colleagues at a prestigious San Francisco law firm.
Desperate to obliterate her past, a young widow flees California for the French Riviera in this compelling debut, a tale of loss, rebirth, modern friendship, and romance that blends Sally Rooney\'s wryness and psychological insight with Emma Straub\'s gorgeous scene-setting and rich relationships
