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How to Fall Out of Love Madly

Auteur(s): Jana Casale
Narrateur(s): Julia Knippen, Sophie Amoss, Imani Jade Powers, Kristen Sieh, Karissa Vacker
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 “Three relatable thirty somethings drive this ode to womanhood. Learning the hard way to love themselves, the women teach invaluable lessons.”—People

“Everyone who loves Sally Rooney should be reading Jana Casale!”—Julie Buntin, author of Marlena

Three women confront the compromises they’ve made to appease the men they love.

Joy and Annie are friends and roommates whose thirty-something lives aren’t exactly what they’d imagined. To make ends meet, they decide to rent their extra bedroom to Theo, who charms Joy with his salt-and-pepper hair and adoration of their one-eyed cat. When Annie goes to live with her boyfriend, Theo and Joy settle into a comfortable domesticity. Then Theo brings home Celine, the girlfriend he’s never mentioned, who is possibly the most stunning woman Joy has ever seen. Joy resolves to do whatever it takes to hold on to him, falling ever deeper into an emotional hellscape of her own making. She is too obsessed to realize that Celine’s beauty doesn’t protect her from pain. Haunted by an event from her past, Celine can’t escape her shame and finds herself in an endless cycle of self-sabotage.

Annie is baffled by Joy’s senseless devotion to Theo, but she’s consumed by her own obsessions: she can’t stop parsing her commitment-phobic boyfriend’s texts in an exhausting mission to maintain his approval. At work, where she fully embraces her natural assertiveness, Annie is a star. But when an anonymous letter lands on her desk accusing her esteemed and supportive boss of sexual misconduct, she is forced to decide who and what she’s willing to stand up for.

Perceptive, mordantly funny, and full of heart, How to Fall Out of Love Madly examines women’s many relationships—with one another, their mothers, their work, men, and themselves—to reveal their underlying power and complexity. It asks, why do so many smart, compassionate, otherwise empowered women tolerate egregious behavior from the men they love? And what will it take for them to reclaim control? Amitié Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction féminine Fiction littéraire Drôle Sincère
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AWFUL. Truly, truly awful. The writing is so, so terrible. We have a few main characters that we are meant to care about - but all I know about them is that Joy thinks she's fat and has "good" pyjamas, Celine is beautiful with big boobs and Annie is ??? I can't even tell you what color their hair is. There are no descriptions of anyone or anything in the book. I don't know what these women look like, what their apartments look like which made it impossible to visualise the story while listening. The only overused description is of Theo's salt and pepper hair. The story is about the women's complicated relationships with men but it's all so ridiculous and trite. The conversations in the book are all stupid and pointless. The author tries hard to find deeper meaning and make deep, connective points but they all fall so, so flat. The entire book is about how these women's sense of self-worth comes from their terrible relationships with terrible, undeveloped men. And why this was narrated by multiple women? I have no idea. Because no-one is consistently narrated by the same person. It just serves to make it all the more pointless. If I could give this zero stars, I would, except from the narration, which was good.

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