Alex is a 22-year-old woman who seems to make her living, such as it is, as an escort of some kind. When we first meet her, she has stumbled into a more lucrative role as the much-younger girlfriend of a middle-aged businessman named Simon. Alex has been summering at Simon’s place in the Hamptons, which is great because her roommates back in the city have finally gotten sick of her owing rent and forced her out of her apartment. There’s also the little matter of […]

In 1969 California, fourteen-year-old Evie Boyd is drifting aimlessly through her last summer before being shipped off to a boarding school at her newly-divorced mother’s insistence. Her father is shacking up with his secretary in a Palo Alto apartment and Evie’s best friend Connie is starting to get annoyed at Evie’s pathetic crush on her brother. Whether she realizes it or not, she’s in a vulnerable position, which perhaps explains why her chance run-in with Suzanne Parker affects her so deeply. Suzanne is nineteen, a […]