For K, a young artist and performer, the world has always been a stage he feels ill-equipped to stand on. Haunted by the ghost of his mother and the inherited rage of his father, he sees his own life as a role he was never properly cast in, making him a stranger to himself. Believing that love is a language of grand, painful gestures, he enters a high-stakes production where he meets Side A—a performer so brilliant and charismatic he is less a person and more a force of nature.
Side A chronicles K's harrowing, all-consuming infatuation. A is a sun, and K, a desolate planet, is pulled irrevocably into his orbit. He devotes himself to becoming A's anchor, his confidant, his secret caretaker—cleaning up the messes left in the wake of A's slighted heartbreak and heirloom pain. K mistakes this one-sided care for love. But when his devotion is met with a moment of thoughtless cruelty, the portrait he so lovingly painted shatters, leaving him a ghost in his own story and adrift in the wreckage of what he thought was his everything.
Side B is the story of what comes after the storm. Numb and invisible, K stumbles into a quiet, unexpected connection with B, a fellow performer who is constantly in the spotlight. Theirs is not a love of grand declarations or gestures. It is built in the silent, sacred spaces: in a dusty, locked art gallery filled with ghosts of the past; under a vast night sky where old constellations are finally allowed to fade; and in the simple, steady ritual of a shared morning coffee. With B, K discovers the terrifying, beautiful possibility of a love that doesn't demand, but offers; a love that sees his fractures and doesn't flinch.
This raw and lyrical novella, told in a unique structure of poetic fragments, is an unflinching look at the love that breaks us and the love that helps us heal. It is a powerful and intimate story about breaking generational cycles of pain, unlearning the language of a wound, and discovering that the safest harbor is not a person you save, but a love built on the mutual ground of being understood.
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Side A chronicles K's harrowing, all-consuming infatuation. A is a sun, and K, a desolate planet, is pulled irrevocably into his orbit. He devotes himself to becoming A's anchor, his confidant, his secret caretaker—cleaning up the messes left in the wake of A's slighted heartbreak and heirloom pain. K mistakes this one-sided care for love. But when his devotion is met with a moment of thoughtless cruelty, the portrait he so lovingly painted shatters, leaving him a ghost in his own story and adrift in the wreckage of what he thought was his everything.
Side B is the story of what comes after the storm. Numb and invisible, K stumbles into a quiet, unexpected connection with B, a fellow performer who is constantly in the spotlight. Theirs is not a love of grand declarations or gestures. It is built in the silent, sacred spaces: in a dusty, locked art gallery filled with ghosts of the past; under a vast night sky where old constellations are finally allowed to fade; and in the simple, steady ritual of a shared morning coffee. With B, K discovers the terrifying, beautiful possibility of a love that doesn't demand, but offers; a love that sees his fractures and doesn't flinch.
This raw and lyrical novella, told in a unique structure of poetic fragments, is an unflinching look at the love that breaks us and the love that helps us heal. It is a powerful and intimate story about breaking generational cycles of pain, unlearning the language of a wound, and discovering that the safest harbor is not a person you save, but a love built on the mutual ground of being understood.
you & I
For K, a young artist and performer, the world has always been a stage he feels ill-equipped to stand on. Haunted by the ghost of his mother and the inherited rage of his father, he sees his own life as a role he was never properly cast in, making him a stranger to himself. Believing that love is a language of grand, painful gestures, he enters a high-stakes production where he meets Side A—a performer so brilliant and charismatic he is less a person and more a force of nature.
Side A chronicles K's harrowing, all-consuming infatuation. A is a sun, and K, a desolate planet, is pulled irrevocably into his orbit. He devotes himself to becoming A's anchor, his confidant, his secret caretaker—cleaning up the messes left in the wake of A's slighted heartbreak and heirloom pain. K mistakes this one-sided care for love. But when his devotion is met with a moment of thoughtless cruelty, the portrait he so lovingly painted shatters, leaving him a ghost in his own story and adrift in the wreckage of what he thought was his everything.
Side B is the story of what comes after the storm. Numb and invisible, K stumbles into a quiet, unexpected connection with B, a fellow performer who is constantly in the spotlight. Theirs is not a love of grand declarations or gestures. It is built in the silent, sacred spaces: in a dusty, locked art gallery filled with ghosts of the past; under a vast night sky where old constellations are finally allowed to fade; and in the simple, steady ritual of a shared morning coffee. With B, K discovers the terrifying, beautiful possibility of a love that doesn't demand, but offers; a love that sees his fractures and doesn't flinch.
This raw and lyrical novella, told in a unique structure of poetic fragments, is an unflinching look at the love that breaks us and the love that helps us heal. It is a powerful and intimate story about breaking generational cycles of pain, unlearning the language of a wound, and discovering that the safest harbor is not a person you save, but a love built on the mutual ground of being understood.
Side A chronicles K's harrowing, all-consuming infatuation. A is a sun, and K, a desolate planet, is pulled irrevocably into his orbit. He devotes himself to becoming A's anchor, his confidant, his secret caretaker—cleaning up the messes left in the wake of A's slighted heartbreak and heirloom pain. K mistakes this one-sided care for love. But when his devotion is met with a moment of thoughtless cruelty, the portrait he so lovingly painted shatters, leaving him a ghost in his own story and adrift in the wreckage of what he thought was his everything.
Side B is the story of what comes after the storm. Numb and invisible, K stumbles into a quiet, unexpected connection with B, a fellow performer who is constantly in the spotlight. Theirs is not a love of grand declarations or gestures. It is built in the silent, sacred spaces: in a dusty, locked art gallery filled with ghosts of the past; under a vast night sky where old constellations are finally allowed to fade; and in the simple, steady ritual of a shared morning coffee. With B, K discovers the terrifying, beautiful possibility of a love that doesn't demand, but offers; a love that sees his fractures and doesn't flinch.
This raw and lyrical novella, told in a unique structure of poetic fragments, is an unflinching look at the love that breaks us and the love that helps us heal. It is a powerful and intimate story about breaking generational cycles of pain, unlearning the language of a wound, and discovering that the safest harbor is not a person you save, but a love built on the mutual ground of being understood.
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| BN ID: | 2940184394169 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 09/06/2025 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 308 KB |
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