With Ava still living in Julian’s apartment, she and Edith fall into a quick friendship that evolves into a relationship. When Julian leaves for London on an extended work project, Ava meets Edith, a Hong Kong local and ambitious lawyer. As they fall into a quasi-relationship, Ava moves into his apartment, where Julian allows her to live rent-free. In her first months as an expat, she meets Julian-a 28-year-old English banker-who seems aloof about everything except his job. Noting that the school hires only white people, she remarks: “Like sharks’ teeth, teachers dropped out and were replaced.” From the jump, Ava approaches the world with cleareyed humor. In Irish author Dolan's debut novel, 22-year-old narrator Ava relocates from Dublin to Hong Kong to teach grammar at a school for English-language learners. A young millennial finds herself in a love triangle with a man and woman.
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