Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “I wasn’t good at most things but I was good at men,” Ava confides in the reader, “and Julian was the richest man I’d ever been good at.” She hopes he’ll be as impressed by her youth and attractiveness as she is by his salary, which she has Googled, thoroughly. Not long after her arrival, she finds herself on a lunch date with Julian, an Oxford-educated British banker in his late 20s. The protagonist, Ava, is an intelligent, 22-year-old loner who moves from her native Dublin to Hong Kong to teach English, with no discernible qualifications other than being white. Already drawing comparisons to Sally Rooney’s work, “Exciting Times,” by Naoise Dolan, has many of the familiar tropes of the “millennial novel” covered: Jealousy and obsession, love and late capitalism, sex and the internet all come whirling together in a wry and bracing tale of class and privilege. ![]()
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