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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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichaela and Eve are two bright, bold women who befriend each other in 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Diana Reid will be called the new Sally Rooney – you’re certain of it by the end of page one. By the end of this real, raw and startling novel, you know Reid is the talent to whom every smart young novelist who follows her will be compared – or hope to be.’ —Meg Mason, author of \u003ci\u003eSorrow and Bliss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e captures the near-erotic thrill of being a young woman, alone and adrift, who finds, in another young woman, an intellectual equal ... 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