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This novel is a pleasure to read even as it gouges you and turns you inside out.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSJ Sindu, author of MARRIAGE OF A THOUSAND LIES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"TRUE LOVE\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ehurts so good. A sharply-observed portrait of a knockdown world of low-wage work, lean belief, and artistic striving, Sarah Gerard's novel captures with acuity and intelligence the brutal and baffling contortions we will twist ourselves into to find, in hairline crevices, connection—even when it is compromised, explosive as it peters out, absurd and painful and frightening.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTracy O’Neill, author of QUOTIENTS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“TRUE LOVE is a brash, sexy, and addictive novel about bad decisions. Gerard’s uncompromising honesty and graceful, precise sentences make me jealous. I didn’t want the book to end.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJuliet Escoria, author of JULIET THE MANIAC\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Written with an acerbic deadpan.... [Gerard’s] stylistic innovation brilliantly captures the way contemporary technology bifurcates our brains into different conversational tracks….  The novel thrums with tension, and Gerard captures the dynamic of a failing relationship with lacerating honesty—made all the worse by the challenges of working freelance in the dystopian era of late-stage capitalism…. A fascinating read for anyone looking to understand the world we’ll inhabit when the smoke of the Trump era clears.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Gerard knows that a large part of identity is performance. [Her protagonist’s] actions, behaviors, language, decisions are at once because of who she is and also serve to define and redefine her evolving self.... The last scene of the novel is simple and devastating.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gossip, sexual desire, and the uncompromising economics for aspiring artists guide the action in Gerard’s lurid, captivating tale [with] an arresting feminist layer. 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The reader becomes invested in the characters’ lives, at times torn between empathy and disdain, but nonetheless needing to know what becomes of them.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecca Godwin, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on Sunshine State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The particular genius of 'Binary Star' is that out of such grim material it constructs beauty. It’s like a novel-shaped poem about addiction, codependence and the relentlessness of the everyday, a kind of elegy of emptiness.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartin Riker, New York Times, on Binary Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rhythmic, hallucinatory, yet vivid as crystal. 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What’s at stake in this frank, ferocious novel is the brutal, ever-elusive salvation of oneself.  A smart, tender, startling work of brilliance.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIdra Novey, author of THOSE WHO KNEW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the themes of ‘Sunshine State,’ Sarah Gerard’s striking book of essays, is how Florida can unmoor you and make you reach for shoddy, off-the-shelf solutions to your psychic unease…. The first essay is a knockout, a lurid red heart wrapped in barbed wire.... 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