As Young as This

As Young as This by Roxy Dunn is a young woman's life told through the men she has dated. With glorious emotional fluency, Dunn charts the ways in which we are built and broken by love, as noted by Pandora Sykes.

Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men Margot has loved, liked, and lusted over.

Since she was seventeen, she's pictured them like stepping stones—each one bringing her closer to finding someone to share her life with and, eventually, father the children she's always imagined in her future.

From her first sexual encounter, to her first love, from grown-up dilemmas to spontaneous thrills, she's soaked up every experience available to her, discovering friendship, joy, and despair. Through all of this, she's refined her search until she believes she's arrived at 'the ending' to her story.

So how did she find herself here, single at thirty-four, and about to make the biggest decision of her life?