Liquid tastes

Liquid tastesShortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Two years after earning a PhD from UCLA, the narrator of Liquid stand achingly far from the middle class comfort promised by her education and the successes of her immigrant parents. Jokingly, her best friend, Adam, suggests she just marry rich. Taking this challenge seriously, armed with a spreadsheet, she sets off on a whirlwind summer of one hundred dates with rich Angelenos as. But when a

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