Everything's Fine

When Jess, a liberal Black woman, and Josh, a preppy white conservative, fall reluctantly, complicatedly, deeply in love, they are forced to ask themselves whether love can overcome two very different ways of seeing the world.

Truly brilliant . . . incredible dialogue and characters so real that I felt preoccupied with them when I wasn't reading. I couldn't have loved it more

Everything's Fine poses incisive questions about love, identity, and the countless ways these things can both bruise and bolster one another. Cecilia Rabess has crafted an extraordinarily brave debut that's painfully real—but plain funny as hell, too

A stunning debut

Does love conquer all? Does it now? Did it ever? These are questions Cecilia Rabess asks in her nimble, discerning debut . . . The ending of Everything’s Fine is one of the best I’ve read in years

A whip smart, sexy, biting love story about how what unites us does not always overcome what divides us

A subtle, ironic, wise state-of-the-nation novel , sharp enough to draw blood, hidden inside a moving, intimate, sincere and very real love story - or vice versa

Do not have anything planned for the day you start this because it is i mpossible to put down and will provoke discussion with anyone else that has read it. Book Clubs – this is your next pick . . . deeply funny, razor sharp

Addictive and extremely funny

Original, confident, hilarious

A love affair that turns inferno .... You'll be riveted

Warm, funny and romantic but it’s also sharp and full of nuance

An assured debut that provides an honest look into the fraught terrain of a mixed-race, mixed-politics romance . . . Rabess is at her best when she is shining a light on the subtle mores that exclude Black women from conventions of desirability

A brilliantly observed novel about what it means to lose yourself as a young woman. So funny but also incredibly true

Funny, felt, and riveting, all at once —a story for anyone who’s ever fallen in love that’s less than straightforward. Cecilia Rabess is equal parts comedian and sorcerer, reminding us that none of us are (only) as we appear

Both entertaining and wise, a page-turner that explores race, class, sex, and ambition and how love and compromise work (or don’t) in our current political climate

I loved this. One Day with teeth

With the 2016 election looming, a volatile cultural and political landscape forces Jess and Josh to reckon with a relationship defined by their differences, and they find that the closer you are to someone the harder it is to villainize them

Fans of Such A Fun Age will enjoy this nuanced, witty read that’s about race, privilege and loving someone but not always liking them

Clean, crisp and charismatic

A hot book on a hot topic, well worth reading and arguing about

A breezy yet unsettling debut… Rabess’s humor is on-point, and the chemistry between the leads is electric ; each scene involving them is fraught with a double-edged sword

[A] thought-provoking debut …An intriguing cliffhanger makes this an excellent pick for book clubs that enjoy rousing debate

Rabess’s ability to sit with difficult questions should be applauded

Observant, thought-provoking and sharply funny

Deserves to be one of the most-talked about reads of the summer

This timely novel explores weighty topics with a clear eye and a light touch

A funny, painful, poignant dissection of modern love, society and politics that delivers right through to its final lines

[An] opposites-attract story bound to elicit plenty of book-club conversation

Cecilia Rabess previously worked as a data scientist at Google and as an associate at Goldman Sachs. Her non-fiction has been featured in McSweeneys , FiveThirtyEight , Fast Company and FlowingData , among other places. Everything's Fine is her debut novel.