Nina is a mess, and she’s selfish, and she’s codependent-and she knows it: “My monogamous relationships all overlap. The hope was always that they’d leave their girlfriends for me would have been the ultimate victory, proof of my irresistibility, but they never did.” “I especially liked men who already had girlfriends. Weed, wine, sex, starvation.” While at college, she stole pills from her suitemate and slept with her boyfriend. She is back home in the Florida Gulf Coast after dropping out of college in New York, and spending a stint in rehab: “ny numbing or mood-altering agent would do. The protagonist-and unreliable narrator-of True Love is Nina. bell hooks echoes Erich Fromm’s definition of love as “the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.” Love is a verb. How many of us don’t have a definition of love? How many would define love the way Justice Potter Steward defined obscenity: I know it when I see it. True Love often shows us what love is not, but what it is often mistaken to be.

In her new novel, True Love, Gerard continues to suss out this question of what love is, what it means, and how it functions-at times-as a weapon, as a cage. I’m trying to understand a definition of it, and to see what else there is.” “I’m also looking very skeptically at our heteronormative values in love and commitment. I’m thinking a lot about sex and love from a political standpoint too,” she said. “I’m interested right now in reading a lot about love. 'Earth-shaking romance.you will flip for this epic love story.In a 2017 interview with The Brooklyn Rail, Sarah Gerard was asked a question about what she was reading. Who is her one true love? Emma knows she has to listen to her heart. With a husband and a fiancé, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants. He's alive, and all these years he's been trying to come home to her. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma's second chance at happiness. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. They build a life for themselves, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. In her twenties, Emma marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. A moving love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life – from the bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six.

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