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TRUE LOVE
Best described as "Cat Person" meets "The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P", this modern novel follows the story of Nina - writer, romantic and loyal friend - to an incestuous crew of Florida locals all floundering through the complicated politics of modern life.
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 rollercoaster 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.
It's for any reader still picking through the wreckage of their doomed relationships, or hoping for the thrill of connection in the dregs of their acquaintances, but who still refuses to lose hope for true love.
Sarah Gerard's debut novel, BINARY STAR (Two Dollar Radio, 2015) was a hit with readers and critics alike it was selected as a Los Angeles Times first fiction prize and one of the best books of 2015 by NPR, Vanity Fair, Buzzfeed and Flavorwire. The New York Times called it "a novel-shaped poem about addiction, codependence and the relentlessness of the everyday, a kind of elegy of emptiness." BINARY STAR was published by Electrobardo (Spanish) and Leesmagazijn (Dutch). Her second book, the essay collection SUNSHINE STATE (Harper Perennial, 2017) was a New York Times Critics' Best Books of the Year.
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 rollercoaster 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.
It's for any reader still picking through the wreckage of their doomed relationships, or hoping for the thrill of connection in the dregs of their acquaintances, but who still refuses to lose hope for true love.
Sarah Gerard's debut novel, BINARY STAR (Two Dollar Radio, 2015) was a hit with readers and critics alike it was selected as a Los Angeles Times first fiction prize and one of the best books of 2015 by NPR, Vanity Fair, Buzzfeed and Flavorwire. The New York Times called it "a novel-shaped poem about addiction, codependence and the relentlessness of the everyday, a kind of elegy of emptiness." BINARY STAR was published by Electrobardo (Spanish) and Leesmagazijn (Dutch). Her second book, the essay collection SUNSHINE STATE (Harper Perennial, 2017) was a New York Times Critics' Best Books of the Year.
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Book Published 2020-07-07 by Harper Collins |
Book Published 2020-07-07 by Harper Collins |