Next Year, For Sure

Next Year, For Sure

Zoey Leigh Peterson

#7996 of 8,085 books · #3099 in Fiction

Longlisted for the Giller Prize (2017).

Next Year, For Sure was longlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize, was a finalist for the 2018 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, was a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award, and was a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2017 and a Quill & Quire Reviewers' Book of the Year. After nine years together, Kathryn and Chris have the sort of relationship most would envy. They speak in the shorthand they have invented, complete one another's sentences and help each other through every daily and existential dilemma. When Chris tells Kathryn about his attraction to Emily, a vivacious young woman he sees often at the laundromat, Kathryn encourages him to ask her out on a date--certain that her bond with Chris is strong enough to weather whatever may come. As Kathryn and Chris stumble into polyamory, Next Year, For Sure tracks the tumultuous, revelatory and often very funny year that follows. When Chris's romance with Emily evolves beyond what anyone anticipated, both Chris and Kathryn are invited into Emily's communal home, where Kathryn will discover new possibilities of her own. In the confusions, passions and upheavals of their new lives, both Kathryn and Chris will be forced to reconsider their past and what they thought they knew about love.