The Other's Gold

A poignant and sparkling novel that opens on a college campus and follows the friendship of four women across life-defining turning points

Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorne College, Lainey, Ji Sun, Alice, and Margaret quickly become inseparable. But their bonds must weather threats that come from the dark forests of their childhoods, and beyond - from institutions, from one another, and ultimately, from within themselves.

As they move through their wild college days to their more feral days as new parents, each of the four friends will make a terrible mistake. With one part of the novel devoted to each mistake - the Accident, the Accusation, the Kiss, and the Bite. The Other's Gold reveals the achingly familiar ways our life-defining turning points prompt our relationships to unravel and re-knit, as the women discover what they and their loved ones are capable of, and capable of forgiving.

'A sharply-drawn portrait of a lifelong friendship... charts the complex, ever-shifting topography of this 'chosen family' - and illuminates the ways our closest friends sustain us over the course of our lives' - Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere

'A gorgeous book, compulsively readable, so full of texture and heartache, so bruised and beautiful' - Jesmyn Ward, New York Times bestselling author of Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones

'A near perfect novel - one of the most immersive, unsettling books I've read in a long, long time. For hours after I finished it, the book felt realer to me than my own life did... I was devastated by it. I loved it' - Kristen Roupenian, author of You Know You Want This: 'Cat Person' and Other Stories

'Addictive... this novel will resonate with anyone who guards an inner circle forged in dorm rooms and dining halls' - Vogue

'It's an ode to the turmoil and joy of female friendship, and the perfect book to read with your friends' - Bustle

'The Other's Gold is as beautifully written and epic in scope as A Little Life, but featuring women characters' - Refinery29