{"product_id":"games-a-love-story","title":"Games: a Love Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A complex, beautiful coming-of-age novel...a love story unlike any I've ever read.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--Ali Hazelwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A soulful book about the politics of labor and submission.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--Raven Leilani \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e in this sharp and provocative coming-of-age debut chronicling the turbulent romance between a brilliant economics grad student and a magnetic Wall Street banker two decades her senior.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Lili Marwan--seeking to escape the unrelenting pressures of her master's thesis, recent rejection from her foster family, and unresolved grief from the death of her parents--has an intense one-night stand with Aleksandr Petrov, her restless mind finally goes calm. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt twenty-two, Lili is already opinionated beyond her years: whether it's astrology, democratic socialism, veganism, or the ravages of late-stage capitalism run rampant. But when a tall, dark stranger buys her a drink in a FiDi bar, she meets her match. Aleksandr is formidable, fiercely intelligent, and infuriatingly disarming. He's also two decades older than her, a Capricorn with a birth chart full of red flags, a neoliberal capitalist, and a strong believer in the power of free markets, having escaped the Soviet Union in its dying days. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe's the opposite of Lili in nearly every way. He challenges her at every turn. And she can't stay away. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of a heady New York City summer, Lili and Aleksandr reach across the divide of their differences and the decades of their lives, discovering startlingly shared experiences. Their casual arrangement--rough sex, hours where Lili does not need to make any decisions--gives way fast to an unexpected intimacy, by turns breathtaking, then devastating. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Lili struggles to understand herself and the complicated threads of her ambition, pain, and desire, she will have to decide: is she willing to risk great loss again, for the hope of profit that is finally within reach?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49309833527539,"sku":"0063437724","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0075\/3644\/3489\/files\/15581323482210.jpg?v=1782670856","url":"https:\/\/swoon.city\/products\/games-a-love-story","provider":"Swoon City","version":"1.0","type":"link"}