The Only Thing There Is to Want

A New York Times bestselling memoirist traces the romantic entanglements that defined her adulthood in this shockingly intimate portrait of love—from a writer whose work has been hailed as “forceful, punctilious, beautiful” (Chicago Tribune).Sarah Hepola's essays have appeared in the New York Times magazine, Texas Monthly, The Atlantic, The Cut, Elle, The Guardian, and Salon, where she was a longtime editor. Her first book, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank To Forget, was a New York Times bestseller. She's the creator and host of the Texas Monthly narrative podcast America's Girls, about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, and the co-host of the weekly culture podcast, Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em. Hepola lives in Dallas, Texas where she is a staff writer for the Dallas Morning News.