Three women. Three lives. One connection that changes everything.
Ama has spent her life trying to escape who she was told she should be. When she meets Miranda, she believes she has finally found a way to become someone new - someone stable, someone worthy. But then she meets Teri, and everything begins to shift.
Teri is still carrying the weight of a love she never dared to confess. Since that loss, she has learned to live in the present - to hold on to fleeting moments before they disappear. When Ama enters her life, she slowly starts to let go of her grief. But love, once lost, leaves behind a fear that never fully fades.
Yale has always had everything - except a clear sense of what she truly wants. Moving through life with extraordinary empathy, she is more attuned to others than to herself. But when her path crosses with Ama and Teri, she is forced to confront a question she has long avoided: what does it mean to choose for yourself?
As their lives begin to intertwine, boundaries blur and certainties dissolve. What starts as something undefined slowly unfolds into a connection that challenges everything they thought they knew about love, identity, and belonging.
The Shape of Us is a quiet, emotionally charged novel about intimacy, loss, and the courage to embrace a love that refuses to fit into one shape.
Elena Reitinger is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. The Shape of Us is her second novel. Born in Austria in 1993, she has been living and working in Germany since 2014. With a background in photography, her work moves between writing, visual storytelling, and the body. Her stories explore intimacy, identity, and the ways people shape one another - how closeness can change us, soften us, and leave a lasting trace. Alongside her creative work, she is engaged in supporting queer communities.
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