Mas­ter of the com­ic nov­el, Jacob­son (Kaloo­ki Nights, The Mighty Walz­er) explores the life of a Lon­don anti­quar­i­an book­seller, Felix Quinn. Quinn’s life begins to unrav­el after he encour­ages his wife, Marisa, to pur­sue a rela­tion­ship with the young, brash, and hand­some Mar­ius. Vol­un­tar­i­ly cuck­old­ed, Quinn at first enjoys the pain of his wife’s infi­deli­ty, but then begins to regret the grow­ing dis­con­nect between him and Marisa. Quinn’s obses­sion with sex­u­al mores fuels the nar­ra­tion, which is bold­ly and fanat­i­cal­ly con­tem­pla­tive; and the psy­cho­log­i­cal archi­tec­ture of Felix and Marisa’s rela­tion­ship makes the dark love tri­an­gle at the cen­ter of the nov­el alto­geth­er authen­tic and distressing.