Lover Girl – Nicole Sellew

I stare out the window and wonder how it is that anything could be so achingly beautiful. The sunset always happens quickly but somehow also over an infinitely broken apart spray of moments, so that I feel like I’m looking out the window and bending time. Really I’m just shifting my thighs around trying to get comfortable which is impossible to do because I’m bored and horny. I think about the last time I had sex with this guy. He fucked me from behind standing up and then said he had never done it like this before with anyone, which I thought was strange because it wasn’t like I was hanging upside down from a harness or anything, I was just standing up gripping the back of the couch in his parents’ basement.

It made me wonder if maybe he doesn’t have sex with a lot of people but I think it could also be that he’s just one of those guys who usually only has sex with girls he respects and therefore doesn’t always get to fuck them from behind. I take out a book and try to read and an hour later we pull into Penn Station.

It’s not as pretty as Grand Central and it’s so sad because it used to be really gorgeous. But so much of the world is like this. I think being in New York City is making me more romantic and wistful than I already am, which is probably not a good thing. I walk around for most of the evening and it’s good fall weather, not too hot but not exactly cool, and once I get hungry I sit at some cheap burrito place and read my book for a little while.

It’s nice to be somewhere that isn’t quiet. The city is the only place where I ever really feel invisible and it’s one of my favorite feelings. There’re so many people, so many beautiful people, and no one bothers to look at me. I can watch everyone and do whatever I want and no one cares.

Praise for Nicole Sellew “I read Lover Girl cover to cover, hypnotized, as though ‘puffing cross-eyed on a Juul.’ Nicole Sellew’s dirtbag Hamptons novella brims with startling wisdom like, ‘Something tells me that they do forgive me but also that I’m not done being punished.’ This one hits like an icy skinny dip in your situationship’s pool.” — RUTH MADIEVSKY, AUTHOR OF ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY “I so admired this stylish and enticingly charismatic study of late girlhood ebbing into something else. Sellew captures it perfectly: her heroine is both listless and exhilarated, wry and horny and alive.

Lover Girl is a perfect war of warmth and coolness, feeling and indifference, and the dance—between second-guessing and impulsive abandonment—that keeps the world turning.” — DAISY LAFARGE, AUTHOR OF LIFE WITHOUT AIR AND PAUL, WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD “Moody and atmospheric, Lover Girl captures the malaise of twenty-something girlhood in all its messy splendor.” — DAISY ALPERT FLORIN, AUTHOR OF MY LAST INNOCENT YEAR “Lover Girl is a seductive fever dream about a young woman in a privileged world who has everything except for the knowledge of who she is.

Are her choices the wisest? No. But that’s what makes them relatable to anyone who’s experienced the messiness of the human heart. Observing New York and the Hamptons through Sellew’s shimmering, witty prose feels like hanging out with a contemporary Eve Babitz. This is a sharp, lovely, aching debut.” — KATIE CROUCH, NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF GIRLS IN TRUCKS AND ABROAD OceanofPDF.com Lover Girl Copyright © 2026 by Nicole Sellew Cover by Joel Amat Güell ISBN: 9781960988805 (paperback) CLASH Books Troy, NY clashbooks.com Distributed by Consortium All rights reserved.

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