People Collide: A Novel

[People Collide's] naturalness and ease with the most fundamental questions of existence make it a big project knocking around in a small package, portending even bigger projects ahead."New York Times One of the most anticipated books of the yearELLE, Electric Literature, Lit Hub A must-readVanity Fair, NYLON, the New York Public Library From the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians, a gender-bending, body-switching novel that explores marriage, identity, and sex, and raises profound questions about the nature of true partnership. When Eli leaves the cramped Bulgarian apartment he shares with Elizabeth, his more organized and successful wife, he discovers that he now inhabits her body. Not only have he and his wife traded bodies but Elizabeth, living as Eli, has disappeared without a trace. What follows is Elis search across Europe to America for his missing wifeand a roving, no-holds-barred exploration of gender and embodied experience. As Eli comes closer to finding Elizabethwhile learning to exist in her bodyhe begins to wonder what effect this metamorphosis will have on their relationship and how long he can maintain the illusion of living as someone he isnt. Will their new marriage wither completely in each other's bodies? Or is this transformation the very thing Eli and Elizabeth need for their marriage to thrive? A rich, rewarding exploration of ambition and sacrifice, desire and loss,People Collideis a portrait of shared lives that shines a refreshing light on everything we thought we knew about love, sexuality, and the truth of who we are.