From the highly acclaimed author of Fresh Girls and Other Stories comes a startling first novel that has won comparisons to Marguerite Duras’ classic The Lover. Fiona, an accomplished young artist reeling from lack of love and susceptible to obsession, falls in love with Raymond, an older married man who never fails to remind her that he will not leave his wife. “This is not the first time,” he says. “You shouldn’t let me do this to you.”

Written in stark, passionate prose, Other Women unfolds in a surreal world of hotel rooms, restaurants, and cabs—as the wife slowly becomes the other woman that the mistress idealizes. A compelling and unsettling journey into a world complicated by self-destructive desire, this is a novel for those who understand what it is to be consumed by a craving for love.

PRAISE FOR OTHER WOMEN

“Lau…is obscenely talented. The writing in Other Women…is like a violent, but exquisitely rendered photograph.” — THE L.A. TIMES

“With often startling poetic visions, Lau explores the inner world of a troubled young woman, the pain and pleasure of desire, the limits of intimacy.” — THE MONTREAL GAZETTE

“A clear, careful, elegant voice of pain, like Joan Didion’s. Evelyn Lau writes about sexual politics ‘without fear or favour.’ She has suffered.” — WILLIAM VOLLMANN, author of Whores for Gloria and Thirteen Stories & Thirteen Epitaphs

“Lau is once again covering the territory that seems to have become her trade mark: the perilous, obsessive, demoralizing side of sexual desire.” — EVA TIHANYI, Books in Canada