The two grow increasingly physically and emotionally intimate, falling in love while keeping secrets from each other. The next morning, she apologizes to Michael’s mother, and that evening Michael picks her up to try a family dinner again. Stella learns that Michael’s father had affairs and ran out on the family. The night is disastrous, however, as Stella’s anxiety and curiosity about Michael’s missing father result in his mother’s tears. He accepts her offer and invites her over to dinner with his family.
She realizes his suits are all his own design. Stella finds him working at his mother’s drycleaners, where he also alters clothes. She asks Michael to be her pretend boyfriend, and he considers her offer. The two have a romantic evening that ends poorly when Stella experiences overstimulation at a night club, and she realizes that she needs to practice relationships, not sex. Over the course of their next several encounters, Stella struggles with physical intimacy, often freezing up with anxiety. The next morning, Michael rejects Stella’s request to be her teacher, but when she resolves to hire a different escort, he grants her three “lessons.” Things do not go as planned when Stella struggles with physical closeness, and they spend most of the night cuddling. Stella asks to hire him as her teacher, withholding her autism diagnosis for fear of being treated differently, and they try to become intimate.
Michael Larsen (who goes by Michael Phan to his clients) meets Stella and is charmed by her intellectual brilliance and her physical appearance. When her mother tells her that she would like grandchildren the same day her coworker Phillip tells her she needs to “practice” sex, Stella decides to hire an escort to act as her tutor.
Stella Lane is a successful econometrician with autism whose life revolves around her work. This guide uses the 2021 Jove mass market edition of the novel.Ĭontent Warning: Please be advised that this text contains graphic descriptions of sex, as well as depictions of unwanted romantic advances, sex work, emotional abuse, and financial insecurity.
0 kommentar(er)
