{"product_id":"made-for-love-a-novel-isbn-9780062280558","title":"Made for Love: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGQ • PopSugar • NPR • Huffington Post • Electric Literature \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• The New Yorker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHOSEN AS A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ PICK BY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly • New York Magazine • Buzzfeed • Refinery29 • Vulture \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e• \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNylon \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the exciting and provocative writer of \u003cem\u003eTampa\u003c\/em\u003e, a poignant, riotously funny story of how far some will go for love—and how far some will go to escape it. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHazel 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 Hazel’s father is strained at best, but her only alternative seems even bleaker. She’s 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 she’s been living in, a world populated with a whole host of deviant oddballs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003eAs 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 Byron’s virtual clutches once and for all. Perceptive and compulsively readable, \u003cem\u003eMade for Love\u003c\/em\u003e is at once an absurd, raunchy comedy and a dazzling, profound meditation marriage, monogamy, and family. | \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Made for Love \u003c\/em\u003eis an argument for that wilder life, as dirty and maniacal as it may be, as well as a plea: interrogate functionality, accept the risk in letting humans exist: not as machines or robots or fantasies, but as they desire to be.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fanzine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hilarious...Nutting’s smart, ribald, and hugely entertaining new novel provokes many chuckles. Occasionally, she reaches higher, and grants the reader flashes of something truly great: a striking view of the pathetic, that Gogolian, absurdist sublime.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Nutting’s uniquely hilarious voice is the perfect guide to this darkly surreal, extremely relatable universe, in which the absurd becomes expected and our own personal hells feel like they’ve been perversely rendered in neon, airbrushed paint.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNylon Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is the raunchy, absurd, intelligent romp you’ve been looking for.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRefinery 29\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nutting mocks wealthy tech culture with scorching glee.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR.org\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Easily one of the funniest books about sex and modern technology you’ll read this year.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Alissa Nutting has written the most hilarious and downright bananas book of the summer” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Alissa Nutting’s \u003cem\u003eMade for Love \u003c\/em\u003ehas to be this summer’s most heartwarming novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Provocative and irreverent, \u003cem\u003eMade for Love\u003c\/em\u003e is an absurdly hilarious musing on love and marriage.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eW Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bizarre and brutally funny… relentlessly entertaining… \u003cem\u003eMade for Love \u003c\/em\u003eis a whip-smart critique of our relationship with technology and the ways we connect to other humans.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Hazel] is the rare literary heroine in whose company it would be a pleasure to absolutely wreck my life...The book is a total joyride, dizzying and surprising, like a state-fair roller coaster that makes you queasy for a moment but leaves you euphoric in the end.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Nutting is the perfect writer to examine this absurdity, and what she’s done in \u003cem\u003eMade for Love\u003c\/em\u003e is remarkable. Let’s just put it out there: go read this book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] wacky, hysterical and crazy-compelling story. Virtually every sentence of this book is laugh-out-loud hilarious... With [Nutting’s] wit plus the intrigue of the plot, it really is impossible to put down.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Embrace the absurdity in this bonkers romp.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Nutting deftly exploits the comic potential of perverse attachments... The novel charms in its witty portrait of a woman desperate to reconnect with her humanity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, \"Best Summer Books of 2017\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As absurd and hilarious as it is poignant.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan, \"11 Books You Won't Be Able to Put Down This Summer\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eMade for Love \u003c\/em\u003ewill be one of the funniest, most absurd books you’ll read this summer....Hilarious, clever, and strikingly original, \u003cem\u003eMade for Love\u003c\/em\u003e speaks to the absurdity of our societal obsessions with technology and wealth.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Smart, riveting ... The book begins, and races along, as an antic thriller... But throughout and underneath this supersaturated masquerade Hazel tells the darkest, baldest, saddest truths. Her aphoristic, hyperanalytical, deftly extemporaneous takes on love, intention, sex, childhood and gadgets are a pleasure to read and always hit their mark; they are also the interesting and entirely believable productions of a character whose self-awareness far outstrips her self-determination... \u003cem\u003eMade for Love\u003c\/em\u003e crackles and satisfies by all its own weird rules, subversively inventing delight where none should exist. How can a book be so bright, and so dark?” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Smart, riveting ... The book begins, and races along, as an antic thriller...\u003cem\u003eMade for Love\u003c\/em\u003e crackles and satisfies by all its own weird rules, subversively inventing delight where none should exist. How can a book be so bright, and so dark?” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Oh god I just love every page. It’s fantastic.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLynda Barry, author of One! Hundred! Demons! and The Good Times Are Killing Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Alissa Nutting is one of the most daring writers in America. She has the courage and recklessness to look our crazy culture in the eye, laughing as the headlights bear down upon her. This book is hilarious, and deeply sad, and hilarious.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDan Chaon, author of Ill Will\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“So blisteringly smart and feverishly inventive that it’s difficult to decide which element pins most precisely the absurdity of our present or the terror of our future. 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