Former sweethearts revisit their teenage loveand their conflicting memories of the pastin this "gem of a first novel" (Charles Bock, author of Beautiful Children).
In between business in Iceland and home in Silicon Valley, Cedar Rivers has come to Albany, New York, to meet a woman he hasn't seen in twenty years. When he knew her, Kat was a cute proto-Goth with chipped black nail polish. Now she's a literary up-and-comer who has summoned him to vet her new memoiran account of the summer they were sweethearts. And she's written parts of it from his point of view.
A tender, absurd, and heartbreaking novel about the unintended consequences of first love and bad judgment, Misconception slyly questions the way we narrate our memories and assign culpability.