Small Talk

For fans of Patricia Lockwood and Dolly Alderton: a hilariously moving love story hinging on one momentous evening, about a newly in-love couple who attend a lively dinner party, and what comes after Two years into their relationship, Magnus knows many things about Meredith. She is a woman of perpetually high spirits. All-American, she possesses the air of someone who has both funneled beer from a plastic pitcher down her open throat and tasted caviar straight from the fish. She never manufactures conflict to get his attention, never stiffens in anger for no good reason. And she has shown Magnus, for the first time in his romantic life, that it is possible to love someone without also despising them, even slightly. But this blissful adoration brings with it a quieter anxiety. Might she grow tired of him, of their life in his native Sweden?