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.

Thuy Nguyen is your typical high achieving international student in her freshman year of college, except she is burnt out and cannot stop taking naps. When she is not napping, she seeks out new lovers, desiring sexual fulfillment. Hiding her true emotions, a habit from growing up with an overbearing mother, she struggles to get truly vulnerable with her friends and lovers. For the summer, she wins a summer grant to Paris, where she researches an obscure Vietnamese painter. Almost immediately, she has everything she wants—a rich lover and a foothold in the art world. But why isn’t she satisfied?