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 SummerOne 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.