Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

Raised to prize intellect over wealth, our narrator has long dismissed the shallow comforts of the rich. But two years after earning a PhD from UCLA, stands achingly far from the middle-class comfort promised by her education and the successes of her immigrant parents. Jokingly, her best friend, Adam, suggests she just marry rich. Taking this challenge seriously, armed with a spreadsheet, she sets off on a whirlwind summer of one hundred dates.

But when a family emergency calls her to Tehran, it’s a queer love interest and the possibility of a very different future that sustains her attention; now she must confront the contradictions of her life and decide which path she wants to follow.

‘Bitterly funny . . . stylishly arch’ – Vogue

‘A wry, mercurial book about the horrors of being ‘on the market,’ both in romance and in academe’ – New York Times Book Review

‘Both charmingly familiar and totally unpredictable, [with] the crispy edges of the most satisfying rom-com’ – The Atlantic