Everything’s Fine

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What to expect

'Acutely smart' - Elizabeth Day
'Completely addictive' – Taylor Jenkins Reid
'Funny, sexy, unafraid, completely unputdownable' – India Knight

Jess first meets Josh at their Ivy League college. He is an entitled white guy in chinos, ready to inherit the world. She is almost always the only Black woman in their class. And she’s not expecting to inherit anything.

After graduation, Jess and Josh end up working at the same bank. They share lunch, they share sparring matches, they share ambitions. And suddenly they’re sleeping together . . .

Cecilia Rabess' Everything's Fine is hilarious, heartbreaking and impossible to put down.

'Spectacular' – Curtis Sittenfeld
'Addictive and extremely funny' –Jenny Colgan
'Stunning’ – Meg Mason
'Plain funny as hell' – Zakiya Dalila Harris
'Our most explosive discussion yet . . . The PERFECT book club book' – Casual Readers Book Club

*A Times 100 Best Books of the Summer and Guardian Book of the Year*

Critics Review

The book of the moment . . . It’s about whether it is ever possible for two people who fancy each other but profoundly disagree about everything that matters to have a happy relationship . . . It’s so good — funny, sexy, unafraid, brilliantly nuanced, completely unputdownable.
The Times
A stunning debut
Meg Mason, bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss
Truly brilliant . . . incredible dialogue and characters so real that I felt preoccupied with them when I wasn't reading. I couldn't have loved it more
Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Romantic Comedy
One of the smartest books I’ve read this year and also completely addictive. I can’t say enough good things about it
Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Does love conquer all? Does it now? Did it ever? These are questions Cecilia Rabess asks in her nimble, discerning debut . . . The ending of Everything’s Fine is one of the best I’ve read in years
The New York Times
Addictive and extremely funny
Jenny Colgan, The Guardian, Five of the best romance books of 2023
A subtle, ironic, wise state-of-the-nation novel, sharp enough to draw blood, hidden inside a moving, intimate, sincere and very real love story - or vice versa
Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and About a Boy
Everything's Fine poses incisive questions about love, identity, and the countless ways these things can both bruise and bolster one another. Cecilia Rabess has crafted an extraordinarily brave debut that's painfully real—but plain funny as hell, too
Zakiya Dalila Harris, bestselling author of The Other Black Girl
A smart, tangly romance
Vanity Fair
An assured debut that provides an honest look into the fraught terrain of a mixed-race, mixed-politics romance . . . Rabess is at her best when she is shining a light on the subtle mores that exclude Black women from conventions of desirability
Guardian
Warm, funny and romantic but it’s also sharp and full of nuance
ELLE
A brilliantly observed novel about what it means to lose yourself as a young woman. So funny but also incredibly true
Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina
With the 2016 election looming, a volatile cultural and political landscape forces Jess and Josh to reckon with a relationship defined by their differences, and they find that the closer you are to someone the harder it is to villainize them
The Washington Post
Fans of Such A Fun Age will enjoy this nuanced, witty read that’s about race, privilege and loving someone but not always liking them
Red Magazine, 10 best books in June 2023
Original, confident, hilarious
Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland
A whip smart, sexy, biting love story about how what unites us does not always overcome what divides us
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies
Funny, felt, and riveting, all at once—a story for anyone who’s ever fallen in love that’s less than straightforward. Cecilia Rabess is equal parts comedian and sorcerer, reminding us that none of us are (only) as we appear
Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin
Both entertaining and wise, a page-turner that explores race, class, sex, and ambition and how love and compromise work (or don’t) in our current political climate
Jennifer Close, bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses
A love affair that turns inferno.... You'll be riveted
People Magazine
Clean, crisp and charismatic
Hena J. Bryan, Bookish Babe
A hot book on a hot topic, well worth reading and arguing about
Kirkus
A breezy yet unsettling debut… Rabess’s humor is on-point, and the chemistry between the leads is electric; each scene involving them is fraught with a double-edged sword
Publisher's Weekly
[A] thought-provoking debut…An intriguing cliffhanger makes this an excellent pick for book clubs that enjoy rousing debate
Booklist
Rabess’s ability to sit with difficult questions should be applauded
Sunday Times
Observant, thought-provoking and sharply funny
Daily Express
Deserves to be one of the most-talked about reads of the summer
Daily Mirror
This timely novel explores weighty topics with a clear eye and a light touch
The Scotsman
Do not have anything planned for the day you start this because it is impossible to put down and will provoke discussion with anyone else that has read it. Book Clubs – this is your next pick . . . deeply funny, razor sharp
Glamour Magazine
A funny, painful, poignant dissection of modern love, society and politics that delivers right through to its final lines
Marie Claire
Pride & Prejudice on Wall Street
Samira Ahmed, BBC Radio 4
This timely novel explores weighty topics with a clear eye and a light touch
PA News
[A] stunning debut...a story that asks big questions about America and what it means to live and love in polarized times. It will make you think but also make you want to keep turning the pages at a relentless pace!
Pop Fiction Women
Can two ideologically opposed people fall — and stay — in love? That's the question Rabess takes on in her bold debut novel. Rabess displays a sharp sense of humor, and her examination of entitlement and staying true to yourself in the modern political world rings painfully real
Connie Ogle, Minneapolis Star Tribune
A subversive love story . . . a funny and punchy debut . . . enthralling
Independent
[An] opposites-attract story bound to elicit plenty of book-club conversation
New York Post, Best books of 2023

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