Consent — Ben Schrank

Mike Zabusky first sees Katherine Staresina at a party, and they are instantly drawn to each other -- so instantly that they have a sexual collision against a bathroom wall less than two hours after they meet. Mike immediately feels surer of his love for Katherine than of anything else in his life. A mystifying game of intimacy and rejection ensues, and Mike is caught up in Katherine's troubled past and his own struggles with autonomy in this intense, incisive novel.