The end of romance

After escaping an emotionally abusive marriage, Sylvie Broder heads to graduate school and forms a bold new belief: women will only find true happiness once they abandon romance altogether. Determined to keep love out of her life, she embraces casual relationships and focuses on pleasure without com...

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Main Author: Meyer, Lily (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Viking, 2026.
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Summary:After escaping an emotionally abusive marriage, Sylvie Broder heads to graduate school and forms a bold new belief: women will only find true happiness once they abandon romance altogether. Determined to keep love out of her life, she embraces casual relationships and focuses on pleasure without commitment. But when she meets two very different men-kind, steady Robbie and passionate, unpredictable Abie-Sylvie finds her carefully crafted philosophy put to the test, forcing her to rethink what love, freedom, and happiness really mean.
Physical Description:326 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780593835142
059383514X
Author Notes:Lily Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novel Short War . She is also a staff writer at The Atlantic. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial , The Drift , The Sewanee Review , The Southern Review , and many other journals, and her essays and criticism appear in outlets including Bookforum , The New Yorker , and The New York Times Book Review .