Green Dot

　　一段複雜又令人難以抗拒的愛情故事
　　明知道沒有未來，卻還是想飛蛾撲火…
 
　　24歲的赫拉，身上的潛力一直無法得到完美的發揮，對她而言，未來似乎不過只是一場又一場的假設，然後被推翻。她在很多事情上都具有高敏感度，明明成績很好，頭腦優秀，可是卻一直都找不到工作，但好在她一直和父親住在雪梨，直到她終於被迫面對要自食其力的情況來臨。
 
　　終於，她找到一份線上新聞網站的評論區管理員工作，聽上去很簡單，但遠比赫拉想像的要麻煩。工作第一週，辦公室裡的記者都對她不理不睬，除了那個在電梯裡遇到的亞瑟。赫拉沈悶的生活開始有了轉機，兩人聊著聊著，竟聊出了戀情，赫拉愛上了亞瑟，問題是對方是有家室的人，而且亞瑟一點也不想離開他的妻子，這現象反而又更加劇赫拉的迷戀。作者以大膽的筆觸，帶點黑色幽默，深刻剖析成年後的喜怒愛樂，以及尋找自我的這趟旅程。(文／博客來外文館)
 

＂Madeleine Gray takes a scalpel to millennial malaise, office romance, and infidelity, and the result is a brainy, gutsy, nervy--and hilarious--wonder of a novel.＂
--Meg Howrey, author of They’re Going to Love You

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing

At twenty-four, Hera is a clump of unmet potential. To her, the future is nothing but an exhausting thought exercise, one depressing hypothetical after another. She’s sharp in more ways than one, adrift in her own smug malaise, until her new job moderating the comments section of an online news outlet--a role even more mind-numbing than it sounds--introduces her to Arthur, a middle-aged journalist. Though she’s preferred women to men for years now, she soon finds herself falling into an all-consuming affair with him. She is coming apart with want and loving every second of it! Well, except for the tiny hiccup that Arthur has a wife--and that she has no idea Hera exists.

With its daringly specific and intimate voice, Green Dot is a darkly hilarious and deeply felt examination of the joys and indignities of coming into adulthood against the pitfalls of the twenty-first century and the winding, tortuous, and often very funny journey we take in deciding who we are and who we want to be.

Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. She has written for the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, the BBC, Electric Literature, Sydney Review of Books, Overland, Meanjin, the Monthly, and other publications. In 2019 she was a CA-SRB Emerging Critic, and in 2021 she was a finalist for the Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, a finalist for the Woollahra Digital Literary Non-fiction award, and a recipient of a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel grant. She has an MSt in English from the University of Oxford and is a current doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester, researching contemporary women’s autobiographical literary theory. Green Dot is her first novel