True Love by Sarah Gerard

True Love by Sarah Gerard

A Glamour Best Book of 2020 * A Bustle
Best Books of 2020 * Winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award * An Entertainment Weekly 30 Hottest Book of
the Summer * A Refinery29 25
Book You'll Want To Read This Summer Selection * A Chicago Review of Books 10 Must-Read Books of the
Month * A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year * A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the
Year * A Shondaland 15 Hot Books for Summer

One of today's most provocative literary writers--the author of
the critically-acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award
finalist Binary
Star--captures
the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in
a dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, and
financial security in the rise of Trump.

Nina is a struggling writer, a college drop-out, a liar, and a
cheater. More than anything she wants love. She deserves it.

From the burned-out suburbs of Florida to the anonymous squalor
of New York City, she eats through an incestuous cast of characters in search
of it: her mother, a narcissistic lesbian living in a nudist polycule; Odessa,
a single mom with even worse taste in men than Nina; Seth, an artist whose
latest show is comprised of three Tupperware containers full of trash; Brian, whose
roller-coaster affair with Nina is the most stable "relationship" in his life; and
Aaron, an aspiring filmmaker living at home with his parents, with whom Nina
begins to write her magnum opus.

Nina's quest for fulfillment is at once
darkly comedic, acerbically acute, and painfully human--a scathing critique of
contemporary society, and a tender examination of our anguished yearning for
connection in an era defined by detachment.

Gerard, Sarah: - Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State, a New York Times critics' choice, the novel Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times first fiction prize, and two chapbooks. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Baffler, Vice, BOMB Magazine, and other journals, as well as anthologies. Her paper collages have appeared in Hazlitt, BOMB Magazine, Epiphany Magazine, No Tokens Journal, and the Blue Earth Review. Recycle, a book of collages and text co-authored with the writer and artist Amy Gall, was published by Pacific in 2018. Her column Mouthful, published by Hazlitt, explored her relationship with food ten years into recovery from anorexia. She's been supported by scholarships and fellowships from Yaddo, Tin House, PlatteForum, and Ucross.

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ISBN 13	9780062937414
ISBN 10	0062937413
Title	True Love
Author	Sarah Gerard
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2021-06-29
Number of pages	224
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