Nicole Flattery

In Everything is Nice, Everything is Lovely, Flattery exhibits her mastery of the absurd, the mannered and the utterly tragic. This is a shrewdly observed, exquisitely layered, unforgettable portrait of lost souls

Meet the perfect couple. Watch them fall apart. 
 
Brid and Mark have been together since school, when she was the most beautiful girl in town, and he was the star football player. 
 
They are newly engaged and on their way to a spa hotel to celebrate – so why are they completely and utterly miserable? 
 
At first, it’s the minor disappointments of hotels: tired decor, peculiar lighting, tacky guests. 
 
But it’s the late-night bender with a much older couple, and the resulting hangover, that leaves them with nothing to hide behind. As the weekend wears on, the desires, compulsions and resentments they’ve kept from each other become impossible to ignore, forcing the golden couple to reckon with the true cost of perfection. 
 
This is a tense and wickedly funny story about love, longing and status in our disconnected times, from one of the most exciting writers at work today.

Everything is Nice, Everything is Lovely

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