Misconception: A Novel

Former sweethearts revisit their teenage love—and their conflicting memories of the past—in this "gem of a first novel" (Charles Bock, author of Beautiful Children).

In between business in Iceland and home in Silicon Valley, Cedar Rivers has come to Albany, New York, to meet a woman he hasn't seen in twenty years. When he knew her, Kat was a cute proto-Goth with chipped black nail polish. Now she's a literary up-and-comer who has summoned him to vet her new memoir—an account of the summ...