Everything's Fine

When Jess, a liberal Black woman, and Josh, a preppy white conservative, fall reluctantly, complicatedly, deeply in love, they are forced to ask themselves whether love can overcome two very different ways of seeing the world.

• A Times 100 Best Books of the Summer and Guardian Book of the Year * ''It''s so good - funny, sexy, unafraid, completely unputdownable'' - India Knight ''An addictive and extremely funny American romance'' -Jenny Colgan ''Wow I loved this book. Completely addictive'' - Taylor Jenkins Reid ''Spectacular'' - Curtis Sittenfeld ''Stunning'' - Meg Mason ''Plain funny as hell'' - Zakiya Dalila Harris Jess first meets Josh at their Ivy League college. He is an entitled white guy in chinos, ready to inherit the world. She is almost always the only Black woman in their class. And she''s not expecting to inherit anything. After graduation, Jess and Josh end up working at the same bank. They share lunch, they share sparring matches, they share ambitions. And suddenly they''re sleeping together . . . Cecilia Rabess'' Everything''s Fine is hilarious, heartbreaking and impossible to put down. ''Our most explosive discussion yet . . . The PERFECT book club book'' - Casual Readers Book Club ''A mash-up of Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid, Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld and Assembly by Natasha Brown'' - Elizabeth Day ''Whip smart'' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies ''A brilliantly observed novel about what it means to lose yourself as a young woman'' -Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina ''Original, confident, hilarious'' -Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland ''Characters so real that I felt preoccupied with them when I wasn''t reading'' - Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Romantic Comedy

Auteur
Cecilia Rabess previously worked as a data scientist at Google and as an associate at Goldman Sachs. Her nonfiction has been featured in McSweeneys, FiveThirtyEight, Fast Company, and FlowingData, among other places. Everything's Fine is her debut novel.