NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Most Anticipated Pride Read by Autostraddle , Electric Literature, and GO Magazine  • One of Cosmopolitan UK's Best Erotic Novels of All Time  "Brief, sharp, and utterly consuming. . . Like your first love, it lingers long after the final chapter." – Tegan Quin A "delightfully frenetic cult classic" ( The Atlantic ) that intimately explores one young writer’s whirlwind and whiplash affair as she falls deeply in love with a woman for the first time. Sometimes I wonder what it is I could tell you about her for my job here to be done. I am looking for a short­cut. . . .But that would be asking too much from you. It wasn’t you who loved her. A young writer moves from the country to the city and falls in love with another woman for the very first time. From the start, this age gap romance is doomed; Finn is nineteen years older, wears men’s clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile . . . and a long-term girlfriend. With startling clarity and breathtaking tenderness, Chloé Caldwell writes the story of a love in reverse: of nights spent drunkenly hurling a phone against a brick wall; of early mornings hungover in bed, curled up together; of emails and poems exchanged at breakneck speed. In Women , Caldwell lays bare the fierce obsession of addictive love, and asks the question: what, if anything, can who we love teach us about who we are? In this beautiful, transcendent, and bracingly sexy queer romance, Caldwell tells a lust-love story that will bring you to your knees. Capturing the feverish heartbreak of Sapphic romance, painting a stark picture of an identity in crisis, and illuminating the exploratory possibilities of queer life, Women brands the heart and sears the soul. “Beautiful, touching, and brave.”  - Emily Ratajkowski, writer and model “Caldwell falls under the spell of a seductive yet withdrawn older woman in this sparks-flying, gorgeously composed queer novel that’s about so much more than romantic love.”  - Vogue “Chloe Caldwell’s Women is a deceptively teensy book. This is the tragicomic tale of the author’s doomed relationship with an older woman and it perfectly captures the way good sex can make us throw anything under the bus – even our identities.”  - Lena Dunham "With Women, Chloe Caldwell proves great literature doesn't require the voices of men." - Ashley Ford, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Somebody’s Daughter "Her prose has a reckless beauty that feels to me like magic.”  - Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of Tiny Beautiful Things and Wild “Joyful, honest, and perfectly unkempt, Women is a taut yet expansive story about falling in—and then trying to crawl back out of—the damp cavern that is love.”  - Courtney Maum, author of The Year of Horses "It's such a special, sacred book."  - T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls “Raw, honest, and captivating. Caldwell writes with such precision, such naked honesty, I found myself holding my breath. A beautiful tale of love.” - Ashley Herring Blake, bestselling author of Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date “A tragicomic account of the young author’s explosive, destructive and short-lived first lesbian relationship with a woman 19 years her senior. . . . Emily Ratajkowski and Lena Dunham are both fans of its visceral, punchy, humorous prose, which perfectly encapsulates the feeling of losing one’s sense of self to a doomed affair.” - Time Out London “Caldwell writes beautifully in both her fiction and nonfiction about identity, sexuality, and womanhood. Her writing is raw and consuming, and a pure delight to spend time with.” - Forbes "Women  is demented—which I say as high praise. I read it in a single, frenetic gulp, alone in a Manhattan bar, desperate to finish it before meeting a friend. . . .. this is a delightfully explicit book. . . . [And] this openness gives  Women  its charm. . . . Women  is a cult classic because it captures how coming out can alter your fundamental sense of self. While that can be terrifying, it opens new doors, which all lead to new destinations." - The Atlantic "A contemporary classic of queer women's writing." - Michelle Tea, author of Knocking Myself Up "Brief, sharp, and utterly consuming, Women is a sublime depiction of a battle between the head and hormones. Like your first love, it lingers long after the final chapter." - Tegan Quin, New York Times bestselling co-author of High School "With precision, wit and tenderness,  Women  charts the frenzy and the fall out of love." - Cosmopolitan "If you agree that there’s no better pickup line than, “have you read Chloe Caldwell’s ‘ Women ’?”, look no further than the reissue of “Women.” Get horny and devastated all over again through this short but powerful story of a young woman who moves to a new city and falls under the spell of an older lesbian…who has a girlfriend but can’t stay away. The updated edition of the 2014 cult favorite novella that Tegan