"A sweet and smart coming-of-age novel with a heroine who knows the value of a good nap. Read The Napper and then get some rest." - Gary Shteyngart

For fans of Sally Rooney's NORMAL PEOPLE and Coco Mellors' CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN, THE NAPPER will have themes of an unsteady female protagonist, a Parisian love affair and self-reclamation. The Napper tells the story of a young expat woman from Vietnam. Thuy Nguyen is your typical spoiled rich international student in her freshman year of college, except she is depressed and cannot stop taking naps to escape from the flashbacks of her emotionally traumatic childhood. When she is not napping, she uses hook-up sex to fill the empty void inside her heart.

Thuy wins a summer grant to Paris, where she researches an obscure Vietnamese painter. In Paris, she gets caught up in an intense love affair with an older married man. As a result Thuy's life becomes even more emotionally chaotic and confusing than she can handle. She returns to Vietnam and shares a moment with her mother that puts everything in perspective.