Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
Whenever I say I was at
university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps
that she could have always been as whole and self-assured as she now
appears. To which I say something like: ‘People are infinitely complex.’ But I say it in such a way—so pregnant with misanthropy—that it’s obvious I hate her.
Michaela and Eve are two bright, bold women who befriend each other
their first year at a residential college at university, where they live
in adjacent rooms. They could not be more different; one assured and
popular – the other uncertain and eager-to-please. But something happens
one night in O-week – a drunken encounter, a foggy memory that will
force them to confront the realities of consent and wrestle with the
dynamics of power.
Initially bonded by their wit and sharp eye
for the colleges’ mix of material wealth and moral poverty, Michaela and
Eve soon discover how fragile friendship is, and how capable of
betrayal they both are.
Written
with a strikingly contemporary voice that is both wickedly clever and
incisive, issues of consent, class and institutional privilege, and
feminism become provocations for enduring philosophical questions we
face today.
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