Summary

When Samra is twenty-four she gets a job as an editor for a car company's magazine. There she meets and connects with Abi who is her boss but soon becomes a good friend and mentor. Abi helps Samra develop her feminism, creativity, and personal strength. Abi happens to be a lesbian and gives Samra a window into a queer world [she] hadn’t yet explored," but where she feels she needs to be (124). Now in her mid-twenties, Samra begins to identify as queer. Andrew takes her to her first queer party when she feels compelled to kiss a woman but is not ready to act on it yet. Though she is coming to terms with her attraction to women, she still feels she owes it to Peter to be faithful to him. Peter works a lot and they don't spend much time together at...