Contrapposto by Dave Eggers #literature Erica and Laure’s love story

Erica and Laure’s love story spans decades

the arrival of Henry and Mary Crawford sets off a flurry of matchmaking and Fanny must decide who she loves and how they might all end up living happily-ever-after

through adoring sonnets and notebooks filled with dirty poems

It's a great story

Jessica Miller is fascinated by the somewhat perplexing tendency of humans to end their own lives

Contrapposto by Dave Eggers #literature Erica and Laure’s love storyCricket is just a shy kid who likes drawing when he first meets Olympia. She's older, more confident; she bullies him into some light vandalism and instantly he's in love. When they're together, they talk about their futures, how they're going to travel the world, the beauty and rapture of art. Then those futures start to arrive in unexpected ways, the years and decades pile up between them, the art world seduces and disappoints and frustrates them.