Description

The Intimates is approximately Robbie and Maize, who meet in senior school and hold fast to one another because they fall through first jobs, passionate activities, and complex interactions with family unit members overseas and here. It's a thoughtful and strong debut book that examines the enchanting and thrills illusions of intercourse, the freighted ties between parents and kids, and the love of youthful companionship. Beautiful, intelligent, humorous, and strongly sensual, within The Intimates, "Sassone has generated a companionship so heavy, so totally plausible, which you feel envious of Maize and Robbie’s distance---and of Sassone’s simple expertise" (Ny Press).