Made for Love: A Novel

ISBN: 0062280554

Author: Nutting, Alissa

Condition: New

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BYGQ PopSugar NPR Huffington Post Electric Literature The New YorkerCHOSEN AS A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ PICK BYPublishers Weekly New York Magazine Buzzfeed Refinery29 Vulture NylonFrom the exciting and provocative writer of Tampa, a poignant, riotously funny story of how far some will go for love-and how far some will go to escape it.Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane-his extremely lifelike sex doll-as her roommates. Life with Hazels father is strained at best, but her only alternative seems even bleaker. Shes just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its products and technologies indispensable in daily life. For over a decade, Hazel put up with being veritably quarantined by Byron in the family compound, her every movement and vital sign tracked. But when he demands to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips in a first-ever human mind-meld, Hazel decides what was once merely irritating has become unbearable. The world she escapes into is a far cry from the dry and clinical bubble shes been living in, a world populated with a whole host of deviant oddballs.As Hazel tries to carve out a new life for herself in this uncharted territory, Byron is using the most sophisticated tools at his disposal to find her and bring her home. His threats become more and more sinister, and Hazel is forced to take drastic measures in order to find a home of her own and free herself from Byrons virtual clutches once and for all. Perceptive and compulsively readable, Made for Love is at once an absurd, raunchy comedy and a dazzling, profound meditation marriage, monogamy, and family.