{"product_id":"games","title":"Games","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A complex, beautiful coming-of-age novel...a love story unlike any I've ever read' Ali Hazelwood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A soulful book about the politics of labor and submission' Raven Leilani\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Lili Marwan, a brilliant economics graduate student, has an intense one-night stand with Aleksandr Petrov, a Wall Street banker two decades her senior, her restless mind finally goes calm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt twenty-two, Lili is opinionated beyond her years: whether it's astrology, democratic socialism, veganism, or the ravages of late-stage capitalism. But when a tall, dark stranger buys her a drink in a FiDi bar, she meets her match. Aleksandr is fiercely intelligent, and infuriatingly disarming. He's also two decades older than her, a Capricorn, a neoliberal capitalist, and a strong believer in free markets, having escaped the Soviet Union in its dying days. He challenges her at every turn. And she can't stay away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of a heady New York City summer, Lili and Aleksandr reach across the divide of their differences, discovering startlingly shared experiences. Their casual arrangement-rough sex, hours where Lili does not need to think-gives way fast to an unexpected intimacy, by turns breathtaking, then devastating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Lili struggles to understand herself and the complicated threads of her ambition, pain, and desire, she will have to decide: is the risk of loss worth the chance of something more?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"XO Book Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53273210847597,"sku":"9781398725874","price":0.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0977\/7079\/9469\/files\/9781398725874.jpg?v=1777543142","url":"https:\/\/xobookco.nz\/products\/games","provider":"XO Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}