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"In the aftermath of her first serious long-term relationship, the book's protagonist, a 22-year-old woman caught in the loop of a dead-end data entry job, takes a trip out of the city to collect her thoughts and visit her friend, Sidney, at her hometown. Every year, Sidney throws a loosely-defined ""festival"" in which she invites her wide and widely-varied circle of friends to stay in her family's empty house for a long weekend of debauchery. This time, however, she's looking for a distraction, and she finds it in the form of Jay, a 40-something manual laborer who wastes no time in prying into her various emotional and existential burdens."

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"""The Fountain is a thorough study of belligerent social anxiety written with an understated, expansive style. Giordano's characters are lost but not too lost, comfortable yet agitated, aimless but conflicted, the story a frustrating walk through a frustrating inner turmoil. I am impressed by Giordano's ability to use such clear, confident prose to detail the neuroses of our confused, unconfident anti-hero, leaving us gripped by the triviality, compelled to turn each page while knowing that nothing would really happen. I felt the self-doubt and self-defeat that runs through Giordano's story drape over my brain like a cheap wine hangover, or like a puke-smelling jacket."" -Zac Smith, author of 50 Barn Poems ""Kat Giordano's debut novel painfully captures the anxiety and confusion of modern dating, where lost people remain in a dreamy, near-constant flux between love and longing, of hope and hopelessness... so if you do decide to take a dip in The Fountain, grab your swimmies, but leave your clothes on, and try not to drown."" -Brian Alan Ellis, author of Bad Poet ""Kat captures the incredible dramatic nature of existing. Each moment becomes an explosion of energy and turmoil. What most people forget and dismiss as irrelevant thoughts and interactions become for Giordano great battles waged across the galaxy of the human heart."" -Noah Cicero, author of Give It to the Grand Canyon"

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