Sweetener by Marissa Higgins
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Two recently separated wives, both named Rebecca, turn to dating, parenting, and questionable life decisions while accidentally pursuing the same woman. Marissa Higgins delivers a sharp, surreal lesbian screwball comedy about desire, motherhood, marriage, and the fantasies we construct around all three.
Description
The Rebeccas are separated, but their lives remain stubbornly entangled. One Rebecca is lonely, depressed, and barely scraping by as a part-time cashier when she decides to list herself as a sugar mama on a lesbian hookup app. Enter Charlotte, a charismatic artist who seems like exactly the distraction she needs.
There’s just one problem: Charlotte is also dating Rebecca’s wife.
The other Rebecca, meanwhile, is a newly sober doctoral student determined to foster a child. Because the two Rebeccas are still legally married, however, the foster approval process requires them to attend parenting classes together. Neither wants to admit what that arrangement might mean for their relationship, but the possibility of reconciliation is enough to send Charlotte’s carefully unstable romantic universe spinning.
As Charlotte tries to navigate her attraction to both Rebeccas, the situation becomes increasingly absurd. There are competing desires, complicated marriages, a fantasy of motherhood, and, naturally, a fake pregnancy belly that Charlotte wears on her dates. Only one of the Rebeccas knows it’s fake.
With its screwball premise and wonderfully strange emotional logic, Sweetener explores the messy territory between wanting something and wanting to be wanted. It’s a funny, offbeat lesbian novel about exes, hookups, sobriety, parenthood, and the sometimes spectacularly weird ways people try to build a life.
Book Details
- Title: Sweetener
- Author: Marissa Higgins
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 1646223438
- Genre: Lesbian Fiction / Literary Comedy
- Themes: Lesbian relationships, divorce, dating, motherhood, marriage, desire, family, sobriety
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