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A bold and unflinchingly sexy Vogue debut novel about a young woman who follows her desires into a world of pleasure decadence and privilege unraveling everything she thought she knew about sex and herself

One of the most entertaining books about sex Ive ever read The perfect read for fans of Raven Leilani and Ottessa Moshfegh this is a book that will have people talkingBuzzFeed

A sex masterpieceThe Guardian

A Kaia Gerber Book Club Pick Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New Yorker and The Hollywood Reporter

Anytime I want I can forsake this dinner party and jump into real lifeEve Babitz

Eve has an adoring girlfriend an impulsive streak and a secret fear that shes wasting her brief youth with just one person So one evening she posts some nudes online This is how Eve meets Olivia and through Olivia the charismatic Nathan Despite her better instincts the three soon begin a relationshipone that disturbs Eve as much as it enthralls her

As each act of theircomplicated threewayaffair unfolds across a cold and glittering New York Eve is forced to confront the questions that most consume her What do we bring to sex What does it reveal of ourselves and one another And how do we reconcile what we want with what we think we should want

In the way only great fiction can Acts of Service takes between its teeth the contradictions written all over our ideas of sex and sexuality At once juicy and intellectually challenging sacred and profane Lillian Fishmans riveting debut is bold unabashed and required reading of the most pleasurable sort