True Love

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-acclaimedSunshine Stateand the Los Angeles TimesFirst Fiction Award finalistBinary 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.