A novel about loneliness, longing, and the lines we draw-until they blur.When Jónsi, a quiet visual artist from the far north, steps into the orbit of Ceel, a dazzling and volatile violin prodigy, his life tilts off-axis. Ceel is brilliance incarnate-beautiful, haunted, adored. And dangerous, in all the softest ways. As their lives entangle against the backdrop of gilded music halls and their undercurrents of decay, Jónsi finds himself swept into a world where intimacy and performance collide, and love becomes indistinguishable from myth.Told through shimmering fragments of memory, dreamlike interludes, and sudden ruptures of sensuality, How We Dissolve is a meditation on desire and dissonance, identity and art. Between overlit hotel rooms, museum corridors, and nightclub shadows, Jónsi must decide whether what he's found is salvation-or just another stage set for collapse.