Love Like That, Emma DuffyComparone
Love Like That, Emma DuffyComparone
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Love Like That
Stories

Author: Emma Duffy-Comparone

Narrator: Angela Dawe

Unabridged: 5 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/09/2021


Synopsis

Named a Best New Book of 2021 by Vogue and Refinery29
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Lit Hub

“A witty, provocative short story collection, filled with women who are delightfully difficult.”—Refinery29

Love Like That is a joyfully subversive and moving debut collection of stories about brilliant, broken women that are just the right amount wrong.

Whether diving into complicated relationships or wrestling with family ties, the girls and women who populate this collection—misfits and misanthropes, bickering sisters, responsible daughters, and unhappy wives—don't always find themselves making the best decisions.

A woman struggles with a new kind of love triangle when she moves in with a divorced dad. A lonely teenage beach attendant finds uneasy comradeship with her boss. A high school English teacher gets pushed to her limits when a student plagiarizes. Often caught between desire and duty, guilt and resentment, these characters discover what it means to get lost in love, and do what it takes to find themselves again.

Utterly singular and wholly unforgettable, Emma Duffy-Comparone's stories manage to be slyly, wickedly funny at even their darkest turns and herald the arrival of an irreverent and dazzling new voice.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

About Emma Duffy-Comparone

Emma Duffy-Comparone’s fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, New England Review, One Story, AGNI, The Sun, The Pushcart Prize XXXIX & XLI, and elsewhere. A recipient of awards from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, the MacDowell Colony, the Yaddo Corporation, and the Elizabeth George Foundation, she is an assistant professor of creative writing at Merrimack College. Love Like That is her first published book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on March 22, 2021

Love Like That is described as “A sharp, witty collection of stories about brilliant, broken women that are just the right amount wrong.” It’s definitely the perfect way to describe this group of short stories. There’s something extra dark in each story, a brutal honesty, a sharpness, even a gasp. Th......more

Goodreads review by Dan on February 22, 2021

One of the best collections I've ever read! Witty, precise, and polished. Emma Duffy-Comparone is a star.......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on February 27, 2021

Note when you pick this up that the knife is in the middle of the cake. This isn't a light and uplifting collection of short stories but rather a sharp and entertaining look at a variety of (mostly) young women. You might like some of the women and might despair of others; you might also recognize s......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on March 12, 2021

Love Like That is a collection of short stories all with a slightly twisted or almost dark take on humanity and love. Yes, love like "that" with "that" being something a bit less than ideal. We have a woman dating a man with a child from a previous marriage, she is not sure what she thinks of this p......more

Goodreads review by Tina on April 12, 2021

LOVE LIKE THAT by Emma Duffy-Comparone is another great short story collection! I’m on a roll with short stories this year! This debut collection was written by a woman and each story featured a raw and complex female main character. There were some stories with a dark edge that definitely made me f......more