Goodreads asked Leslie Spitz-Edson:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Leslie Spitz-Edson At the moment I'd have to say Zeke and Mylene from The Get Down. I love that the conventional veils of self-preservation that we so often draw between each other are simply not there between the two of them - even when they'd like them to be. It makes for a certain rawness that I - a lover of expressionist painting and screeching, dissonant operas by Richard Strauss - can really appreciate. Also, their care for each other feeds their own more individual passions - or seems to, so far (I'm only halfway through the series) - so that their love for each other creates more space, more possibility for each of them, rather than less.

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