Heartsick : three stories about love, pain, and what happens in between / Jessie Stephens.
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022Edition: First editionDescription: 320 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781250838360
- 306.7 23/eng/20220127
- HQ801 .S8145 2022
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300 - 399 | Hanover Public Library Shelves | 306.7 STEP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001223081 |
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306.7 DOOL Had it coming : what's fair in the age of #MeToo / | 306.7 HEND Keeping the love you find : a guide for singles / | 306.7 HEND Getting the love you want : a guide for couples / | 306.7 STEP Heartsick : three stories about love, pain, and what happens in between / | 306.708 OREN Girls & sex : navigating the complicated new landscape / | 306.7082 TADD Three women / | 306.73 SHET 8 rules of love : how to find it, keep it, and let it go / |
"This book was born in the hours I’ve waited for men to message me back and who never did…
In the years full of almost-relationships, I thought, “I cannot handle another rejection,” and then found myself turned down by someone I wasn’t even sure I liked. I wrote this book because I know what it is to feel fundamentally unlovable. I knew when I was looking for Ana, Patrick, and Claire that their stories had to be true, because within them would be nuances I’d never noticed before and realities I couldn’t have invented. I didn’t want to be limited by what I happened to know about love and loss. I wanted to learn from people as I wrote, injecting wisdom from different places and genders and ages into this book.
Weaving together these three true stories, Jessie Stephens captures the painful but wholeheartedly universal experience of heartbreak. Deeply relatable, addictive to the very last page, and powerfully human, Heartsick reminds us that emotional pain can make us as it breaks us and that storytelling has the ultimate healing power.
In the solitude that reading a book demands, one is forced to reflect on one’s own life. After all, every time we explore others, we’re mostly just exploring ourselves.
These are their stories―Ana’s and Patrick’s and Claire’s. But it is also my story and our story. I trust within it you will find echoes of yourself."
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