num_pages: 320
description: Remy and Alicia a couple of insecure service workers are not particularly happy together--but they are bound by a shared obsession with Jen a beautiful former co-worker of Remys who now seems to be following her bliss as a globe-trotting jewelry designer. In and outside the bedroom Remy and Alicia's entire relationship revolves around fantasies of Jen whose every Instagram caption outfit and New Age mantra they know by heart.Imagine their confused excitement when they run into Jen in the flesh and she invites them on a surfing trip to the Hamptons with her wealthy boyfriend and their group. Once there Remy and Alicia try (a little too hard) to fit into Jens exalted social circle but violent desire and class resentment bubble beneath the surface of this beach-side paradise threatening to erupt. As small disturbances escalate into outright horror Remy and Alicia tumble into an uncanny alternate reality one shaped by their most unspeakable deviant and intoxicating fantasies. Is this what self-actualization looks like?Part millennial social comedy part psychedelic horror and all wildly entertaining A Touch of Jen is a sly unflinching examination of the hidden drives that lurk just outside the frame of our carefully curated selves.
language: English
title: A Touch of Jen
publisher: Little, Brown and Company