Love Invents Us

author
Amy Bloom

lets be clear
I love Amy Bloom: her fiction is incredible. The visceral mastery she has over happenings of the heart is unparalleled. Her short stories are in league of their own, and her first (and as of yet, only) foray into long-form fiction, leaves nothing to be desired. The bottom line is, if you don't like her, chances are, I don't like you.

what the back of the book says
"In her debut novel, Amy Bloom, a National Book Award finalist for Come to Me has written an unsettling tale of desire. With her finely honed style and her generous, unflinching sensibility, she shows us how profoundly the forces of love shape our lives.

In Love Invents Us, a girl becomes a woman; a boy becomes a man; a man grows old and dies; Elizabeth, Horace, and Max know each other, leave each other, and find each other again over the course of thirty years. The need to be loved, the unreasonable and unarguable demands of the heart, take all of Bloom's characters, young and old, black and white, through lives they could not have even imagined. Unsparingly real, funny, and razor-sharp, Bloom gives us love simultaneously delightful and painful, necessary and devastating."

some of the hype
"Bloom is a truly excellent writer...lyrical and funny....There is a line worth quoting on almost every page of this book." —Los Angeles Times

"Bloom's precise, sensual and heartbreaking tale reminds us that the most exquisite of pleasures can be wedded to the most searing of sorrows." —Chicago Tribune

"Written in lyrical prose that describes complicated emotional states with great sensitivity and tenderness." —The New York Times Book Review

"Amy Bloom writes about love and desire with more visceral power than anyone I know....This novel is marvelous." —Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina

some other things this author has written
Come to Me
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
Normal
Away