Instant love: fiction

✍ Scribed by Jami Attenberg

• Publisher: Crown/Archetype;Shaye Areheart Books
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 183 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1299015662

✦ Synopsis

"We are all walking around this city with our hearts sadly swimming in our chests, like dying fish on the surface of a still pond. It's enough to make you give up entirely." --from Instant Love

But we don't give up. We keep trying. We're either too stupid to learn from our mistakes or we honestly believe that the next time will be different; it's hard to say which. Driven by the mad hopefulness that is part of the human condition, we are constantly falling in and out of love with a slightly different version of the person who came before. Jami Attenberg chronicles those exact moments with heartbreaking realism in her powerful debut, Instant Love.

Told through the eyes of three young women and their friends and lovers, Instant Love explores what it means to be in love, what it means to be lonely, and what it means to be both at the same time. Holly turns to computer dating to find love even as she thinks wistfully of a former boyfriend...