Iris Glass

Book Structure

Contents

Three books, eight parts, and a slow shift from dating story into haunted testimony.

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At A Glance

Three books and an interlude

Dating-app loneliness, a move between cities, intimacy that arrives hard-won, and the breakdown where memory and authorship stop separating.

Book One

The Narcissist and the Genius

Nora falls into Roman's certainty, meets Crash, and learns that what feels like being seen can be the beginning of danger.

Book 1.5

The Interlude

After the rupture, Nora swipes, travels, moves north. The eerie suspension between one pattern and the next.

Book Two

When the Man You Want Arrives at Your Door

Crash returns. Intimacy, domesticity, relapse, rehab, waiting. The hope that connection might be enough.

Book Three

In the LLM

The relationship frays. Nora keeps writing. The document she can't stop revising becomes the only place anything still holds together.

Contents

Table Of Contents

Book One

The Narcissist and the Genius

Prologue · Part I · Part II · Part III

Prologue

  • The Unbearable Intimacy of Strangers

Part I

  • Nights in Her Mother's House
  • The Sunset Walk
  • The Donut Shop
  • The Opal
  • The New Year

Part II

  • The Feed
  • The Three-Way Call
  • The Loop
  • The Leash
  • Between Her and the Door
  • The False Hope
  • The Breakup

Part III

  • The Coworking Space
  • The Coffee Shop Date
  • The Instagram Follow
  • The Dance Video
  • The Accusation
  • The Flood

The Interlude

A crossing between books

  • The Swiping
  • The Long-Distance Friend
  • The City Decided
  • The Marina Hotel
  • The Next Day
  • The Move North
  • The Empty City
  • The Job Search

Book Two

When the Man You Want Arrives at Your Door

Part IV · Part V · Part VI

Part IV

  • Contact From the Past
  • The White T-Shirt
  • The Evidence of Before
  • The Hand Between Laptops
  • The Sunday Waffles
  • The Birthday Month

Part V

  • The Hotel Key
  • The Tapering Plan
  • Hi, it's Nora
  • The Birthday Poisoning
  • The Calls From Hotels
  • The Choice She Couldn't Make

Part VI

  • The Sprint Velocity
  • The Voice Notes
  • The Belated Birthday
  • The Stolen Hours
  • The Phone Calls

Book Three

In the LLM

Part VII · Part VIII

Part VII

  • The Careful Days
  • The Wrongness
  • The Narrator
  • The Maybe
  • The Empty Apartment
  • The Call

Part VIII

  • The Breakdown
  • The Reaching
  • The Message Flood
  • The Suspension

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