The man wonders if their relationship is an exploitative one, prompting us—if we haven’t already—to wonder the same. If so, which party is being exploited? Does it make a difference that (in both novels) the man is 32 and the woman in her early twenties? Does it make a difference that he loves her? Does it make a difference that... read full story
"You're all going around getting strangled and spitting in each other's mouths or whatever. I'm thirty-two, okay, we're normal"