Ultraluminous

Description

Girlfriend. Prostitute. Addict. Terrorist? Who is K?

The daring new novel from Katherine Faw, the brilliant author of Young God, is a scintillating story of money, sex, and power told in Faws viciously sharp prose. A high-end, girlfriend-experience prostitute has just returned to her native New York City after more than a decade abroadin Dubai, with a man she recalls only as the Sheikhbut its unclear why exactly shes come back. Did things go bad for her? Does she have scores to settle?

Regardless, she has quickly made herself at home. Shes set up a rotation of clientsall of them in financeeach of whom has different delusions of how he is important to her. And shes also met a man whom she doesnt chargea damaged former Army Ranger, back from Afghanistan.

Her days are strangely orderly: A repetition of dinners, personal grooming, museum exhibitions, sex, Duane Reades (she likes the sushi), cosmology, sex, gallery shows, nightclubs, heroin, sex, and art films (which she finds soothing). She finds the pattern confirming, but does she really believe its sustainable? Or do the barely discernible rifts in her routine suggest that something else is percolating under the surface? Could she have fallen for one of her bankers? Or do those supposed rifts suggest a pattern within the pattern, a larger scheme shes not showing us, a truth that wont be revealed until we can see everything?

Author Information

Katherine Faw’s debut novel, Young God, was long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and named a best book of the year by The Times Literary Supplement, The Houston Chronicle, BuzzFeed, and more. Her second novel is Ultraluminous. Formerly known as Katherine Faw Morris, she was born in North Carolina, and lives in Brooklyn.