num_pages: 320
description: A heart-wrenching debut novel about a young couple trying to find out what they really want in life--and whether or not that includes each other.Julia and Evan fall in love as undergraduates at Yale. For Evan who grew up in a small town in Canada Yale is a whole new world and Julia--blond beautiful and rich--is part of his vision for a successful future. After they graduate in 2008 they move together to New York city where Evan takes a job at a hedge fund--another step forward in the life he imagines for himself.Julia who has only known a life of privilege graduates with an art history degree and no plan for her own future. She lands a low paying assistant job at a nonprofit unsure about what she really wants and wondering when everyone else figured that out for themselves. With the market crashing and banks failing around him Evan becomes involved in an increasingly high-stakes deal at work and begins to realize that the price of privilege may come with dangerous strings attached. Meanwhile Julia reconnects with someone from her past--someone who offers her a vision of a different kind of life.Told in alternating perspectives The Futures is a vivid story about love--falling in and out of it--betrayal and the burning desire to be valued.
language: English
title: The Futures
publisher: Little Brown and Company