"Book clubs across the USA should be buying up stacks of Lionel Shriver's dazzling Rubik's Cube of a novel. The rewards for sticking with these five-hundred-plus pages are as delicious as one of Irina's feasts." - Washington Post Book World Shriver, a brilliant and versatile writer, allows these competing stories to unfold organically, each a fully rounded drama, rich with irony, ambiguity, and unforeseeable human complications." - Entertainment Weekly "A playful, psychologically acute, and luxuriously textured meditation on the nature of love." - The New Yorker Two competing alternate futures hinge on this single kiss, as Irina's decision - to surrender to temptation or to preserve her seemingly safe partnership with Lawrence - will have momentous consequences for her career, her friendships and familial relationships, and the texture of her daily life. A tour de force." - USA TodayĪmerican children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a secure, settled life in London with her smart, loyal, disciplined partner, Lawrence - until the night she finds herself inexplicably drawn to kissing another man, a passionate, extravagant, top-ranked snooker player. But that barely scrapes the surface in describing Shriver's imaginative feat.It's mad genius.
"The Post-Birthday World is a brilliant 'what if?' novel.
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