Students, friends, and lovers amuse and provoke one another over the course of the final year of their various programs at a Midwestern city's university.  University students are dancers, poets, and a banker; townspeople people have their own struggles, and characters revolve around each other in various relationships. As the year winds up, several of the young people join at a remote cabin for a good-bye and send off as they prepare for new lives. Taylor's fiction is described as "psychologically taut" and it is, as the characters explore love and sex, ambition and uncertainty, and the difficulty of finding their future. Riverhead Books, an Imprint of Penguin Random House. 2020. Paper. NEW. $14.00