The Fountain

<p><span style=color: rgba(29 29 29 1)>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.</span></p>