How to Fall Out of Love Madly is a work of fiction. Perceptive, mordantly funny, and full of heart, How To Fall Out Of Love Madly examines women’s many relationships - with one another, their mothers, their work, men, and themselves - to reveal their underlying power and complexity. But then an anonymous letter lands on her desk accusing her esteemed and supportive boss of sexual misconduct, and Annie is forced to decide who and what she's willing to stand up for. At work, where she leans into her natural assertiveness, Annie is a star. Eager to please her commitment-phobic boyfriend, she can't stop parsing his texts and pretending to be the easy-going, cool girl he wants. Celine is so haunted by an event in her past that she can't access the confidence she yearns to exude.Īnnie is worried about Joy's senseless devotion to Theo, but she has her own troubles.
Distracted by her need to please Theo, Joy fails to see that Celine's beauty doesn't protect her from her own insecurities. Anything Celine might deny him, Joy will grant. Joy resolves to do whatever it takes to nurture the bond she and Theo have forged. Then Theo brings home Celine, the girlfriend he's never mentioned and who is possibly the most stunning woman Joy has ever seen. When Annie goes to live with her boyfriend, Theo and Joy settle into a comfortable domesticity. To make ends meet, they decide to rent their extra bedroom to Theo, who charms Joy with his salt-and-pepper hair and adoration of their one-eyed cat.
Joy and Annie are friends and roommates whose thirty-something lives aren’t exactly what they’d imagined. Learning the hard way to love themselves, the women teach invaluable lessons.” - People "Three relatable thirty-somethings drive this ode to womanhood. It asks, why do so many smart, compassionate, otherwise empowered women tolerate egregious behaviour from the men they love? Three women confront the compromises they’ve made to appease the men they love.
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