in the silver grasses

Perfect, polished Jean Gunnhildr is the beloved golden girl of her college campus. In between managing her packed schedule and her mother’s strict expectations, Jean maintains a businesslike, mutually beneficial “arrangement” with classmate-slash-rival Eula Lawrence. Ever the black sheep, Eula drinks too much and compromises too little, but to Jean she provides a reliable source of no strings attached “stress relief.”When Jean finds herself moving in with Eula their senior year—for purely pragmatic reasons—her neat, regimented life starts to fracture. Boundaries blur. Old hurts are exhumed. Suddenly, there are too many strings to count, and neither Jean nor Eula knows how to untangle the knots.