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The work is not a confession so much as an experiment: can a writer render attraction without diminishing the people involved? Desirae’s answer is a careful, sometimes wry, almost always humane yes. The pool is fixed. The deck is straightened. The stories that spring from their summer are left in the hands of a watchful woman who wants to write, above all, about how we live near one another—how our small, ordinary negotiations of desire reveal the architecture of belonging.