Cat St. Clair is ready for her messy love triangle era now that she’s in an open relationship. But she didn’t foresee a forbidden love triangle with the only two people who are off-limits: her boyfriend’s best friend and his girlfriend. Being a twenty-something writer who lives for plot, she falls for them anyway, with deliciously disastrous consequences, in this electric literary debut for fans of Xochitl Gonzalez, Coco Mellors, Lily King, and Raven Leilani.
It’s the fall of 2024, and twenty-four-year-old Cat isn’t asking for too much: all she wants is three boyfriends, to write her little novels, and to survive another chaotic presidential election. She’s in an open relationship with her college sweetheart Jay, but nonmonogamy isn’t just a hot trend she’s trying. It’s her sliver of freedom in a world eager to wrestle it from her for being a Black woman going after what she wants with reckless abandon.
While political tensions roil the campus where Cat is slowly earning her creative writing degree, she finds herself drawn to Jay’s best friend, Tristan, who’s smart, super hot, and…in a monogamous relationship. And then she meets Tristan’s girlfriend, Nia, a captivating art student with her own gravitational pull.
Friends and family urge her to just be happy with Jay, but Cat is determined to have it all—or blow up her life trying. As she falls for all the wrong people, racking up lies, betrayals, and terrible drafts of her novel, she tries to write her way to a happy ending. But in art, politics, and love, true liberation may take more than rewriting the old scripts. It may mean inventing something entirely new.
Genre: Literary Fiction
It’s the fall of 2024, and twenty-four-year-old Cat isn’t asking for too much: all she wants is three boyfriends, to write her little novels, and to survive another chaotic presidential election. She’s in an open relationship with her college sweetheart Jay, but nonmonogamy isn’t just a hot trend she’s trying. It’s her sliver of freedom in a world eager to wrestle it from her for being a Black woman going after what she wants with reckless abandon.
While political tensions roil the campus where Cat is slowly earning her creative writing degree, she finds herself drawn to Jay’s best friend, Tristan, who’s smart, super hot, and…in a monogamous relationship. And then she meets Tristan’s girlfriend, Nia, a captivating art student with her own gravitational pull.
Friends and family urge her to just be happy with Jay, but Cat is determined to have it all—or blow up her life trying. As she falls for all the wrong people, racking up lies, betrayals, and terrible drafts of her novel, she tries to write her way to a happy ending. But in art, politics, and love, true liberation may take more than rewriting the old scripts. It may mean inventing something entirely new.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"This is a firecracker of a novel - funny, smart, sexy, and alive with a narrator you can't help but fall for. I loved it." - Antonia Angress
"You know how people sometimes say Sally Rooney is writing what will be the first millennial classics? I think Haili Blassingame wrote a Gen Z/millennial cusp classic. I haven't been this excited by a book in ages. Incisive, raw, and relentlessly funny, Blassingame's superb debut cements her as an electric voice to watch and a sharp portraitist of Gen Z desire. They All Fall in Love in the End thrums with tactile, evocative prose, sexual tension, and smart social commentary. I laughed out loud so many times - I absolutely loved it." - Katie Naymon
"As a satirist and fresh American voice, Blassingame is a talent to watch." - Dawnie Walton
"Gorgeously written, funny and sad...I loved it!" - Jennifer Weiner
"You know how people sometimes say Sally Rooney is writing what will be the first millennial classics? I think Haili Blassingame wrote a Gen Z/millennial cusp classic. I haven't been this excited by a book in ages. Incisive, raw, and relentlessly funny, Blassingame's superb debut cements her as an electric voice to watch and a sharp portraitist of Gen Z desire. They All Fall in Love in the End thrums with tactile, evocative prose, sexual tension, and smart social commentary. I laughed out loud so many times - I absolutely loved it." - Katie Naymon
"As a satirist and fresh American voice, Blassingame is a talent to watch." - Dawnie Walton
"Gorgeously written, funny and sad...I loved it!" - Jennifer Weiner
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