Imaginative, funny, emotionally gripping.

A haunting and beautifully written memoir that I couldn’t put down.

At twenty-five years old, Vivian Falkenberg, a beautiful and preternaturally gifted German-Argentine businesswoman, is living in Buenos Aires, suffocated by a declining economy and a man standing in the way of the independence she seeks. When a job in Munich appears, she jumps at the opportunity. Thirty-one-year-old Parker Griffon, a nomadic Silicon Valley engineer with equal parts ability, ambition, and business naïveté, moves to Munich ostensibly to start a software company, but mostly to escape commitment. 

Arriving in Munich on the same day, they become enmeshed in a relationship neither intended, spend a year pursuing each other from Cairo to Cape Town, and finally slay the personal demons that keep them apart.

Beautiful and terrible things ensue.