Love Bomb, Lisa Zeidner
Love Bomb, Lisa Zeidner
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Love Bomb

Author: Lisa Zeidner

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/04/2012


Synopsis

In quaint Haddonfield, New Jersey, Tess is about to marry Gabe in her childhood home. Her mother, Helen, is in a panic about the guests, who include warring exes, crying babies, jealous girlfriends, and too many psychiatrists. But the most difficult guest was never on the list at all: a woman in a wedding dress and a gas mask, armed with a rifle, a bomb trigger strapped to her arm.Lisa Zeidner’s audacious novel Love Bomb begins as a hostage drama and blossoms into a far-reaching tale about the infinite varieties of passion and heartbreak.Who has offended this nutcase, and how? Does she seek revenge against the twice-divorced philanderer? Or is her agenda political—against the army general? Or the polygamous Muslim from Mali? While the warm, wise Helen attempts to bond with the masked woman and control the hysteria, the hostages begin to untangle what connects them to one another, and to their captor. But not until the SWAT team arrives does “the terrorist of love” unveil her real motives....Critics have praised Lisa Zeidner’s prose for its “unforced edginess and power”; her fiction “shines with humor, wisdom, and poignancy.” In her most masterful novel yet, Zeidner gives us a tough yet tender social comedy, a romance with guts, a serious frolic written out of deep affection for all that it skewers.

About Lisa Zeidner

Lisa Zeidner has published four novels, including the critically acclaimed Layover, and two books of poems. Her stories, reviews, and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, GQ, Tin House, and elsewhere. She directs the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shelleyrae on September 13, 2012

When an intimate suburban wedding is interrupted by an armed woman wearing a gas mask, wedding gown and steel toed boots, the guests assume it is a joke. Only as the woman confiscates their mobile phones and explains the back door is wired with explosives does the reality of the surreal situation se......more

Goodreads review by Walt on February 07, 2013

Starting with a terrific, offbeat premise worthy of Christopher Moore -- the amusing interruption of a home wedding by a bridal gown-dressed, fully armed woman -- the novel devolves into a series of lengthy backgrounders on several of the guests and the hostage taker herself. The quick pace of the s......more

Goodreads review by Katie on February 05, 2013

Amusing comic novel about a terrorist at a wedding. She storms up the aisle in a wedding dress with a bomb and takes all the wedding guests hostage. The guests are largely comprised of psychologists and psychiatrists, which makes up a lot of the book's humor (as they all try to deconstruct the terro......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on April 30, 2021

I loved all the little tidbits into the many characters' lives. It felt more like a collection of short stories that overlapped versus a more typical novel. The group of hostages were certainly vexing. While there was no need for all the psychiatrists, it was important to show the contrast. Helen was......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on February 17, 2013

A masked terrorist takes a wedding hostage in Lisa Zeidner's LOVE BOMB. Zeidner wisely doesn't keep us trapped in the home in which the wedding's taking place, expanding on the themes of such a celebration (as well as the terrorist's soon-to-be-revealed motives) to flashback to many of her character......more