{"product_id":"women-a-novella-isbn-9780063387072","title":"Women: A Novella","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Most Anticipated Pride Read by \u003ci\u003eAutostraddle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e • One of \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan \u003c\/i\u003eUK's Best Erotic Novels of All Time \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Brief, sharp, and utterly consuming. . . Like your first love, it lingers long after the final chapter.\" – Tegan Quin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"delightfully frenetic cult classic\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e) that intimately explores one young writer’s whirlwind and whiplash affair as she falls deeply in love with a woman for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSometimes I wonder what it is I could tell you about her for my job here to be done. I am looking for a short­cut. . . .But that would be asking too much from you. It wasn’t you who loved her.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young writer moves from the country to the city and falls in love with another woman for the very first time. From the start, this age gap romance is doomed; Finn is nineteen years older, wears men’s clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile . . . and a long-term girlfriend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith startling clarity and breathtaking tenderness, Chloé Caldwell writes the story of a love in reverse: of nights spent drunkenly hurling a phone against a brick wall; of early mornings hungover in bed, curled up together; of emails and poems exchanged at breakneck speed. In \u003ci\u003eWomen\u003c\/i\u003e, Caldwell lays bare the fierce obsession of addictive love, and asks the question: what, if anything, can who we love teach us about who we are?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this beautiful, transcendent, and bracingly sexy queer romance, Caldwell tells a lust-love story that will bring you to your knees. Capturing the feverish heartbreak of Sapphic romance, painting a stark picture of an identity in crisis, and illuminating the exploratory possibilities of queer life, \u003ci\u003eWomen\u003c\/i\u003e brands the heart and sears the soul.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Beautiful, touching, and brave.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmily Ratajkowski, writer and model\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Caldwell falls under the spell of a seductive yet withdrawn older woman in this sparks-flying, gorgeously composed queer novel that’s about so much more than romantic love.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Chloe Caldwell’s Women is a deceptively teensy book. This is the tragicomic tale of the author’s doomed relationship with an older woman and it perfectly captures the way good sex can make us throw anything under the bus – even our identities.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLena Dunham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With \u003cem\u003eWomen,\u003c\/em\u003e Chloe Caldwell proves great literature doesn't require the voices of men.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAshley Ford, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Somebody’s Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Her prose has a reckless beauty that feels to me like magic.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of Tiny Beautiful Things and Wild\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Joyful, honest, and perfectly unkempt, \u003cem\u003eWomen\u003c\/em\u003e is a taut yet expansive story about falling in—and then trying to crawl back out of—the damp cavern that is love.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCourtney Maum, author of The Year of Horses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's such a special, sacred book.\"   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eT Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Raw, honest, and captivating. Caldwell writes with such precision, such naked honesty, I found myself holding my breath. A beautiful tale of love.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAshley Herring Blake, bestselling author of Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A tragicomic account of the young author’s explosive, destructive and short-lived first lesbian relationship with a woman 19 years her senior. . . . Emily Ratajkowski and Lena Dunham are both fans of its visceral, punchy, humorous prose, which perfectly encapsulates the feeling of losing one’s sense of self to a doomed affair.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Caldwell writes beautifully in both her fiction and nonfiction about identity, sexuality, and womanhood. Her writing is raw and consuming, and a pure delight to spend time with.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Women \u003c\/em\u003eis demented—which I say as high praise. I read it in a single, frenetic gulp, alone in a Manhattan bar, desperate to finish it before meeting a friend. . . .. this is a delightfully explicit book. . . . [And] this openness gives \u003cem\u003eWomen\u003c\/em\u003e its charm. . . .\u003cem\u003eWomen \u003c\/em\u003eis a cult classic because it captures how coming out can alter your fundamental sense of self. While that can be terrifying, it opens new doors, which all lead to new destinations.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A contemporary classic of queer women's writing.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichelle Tea, author of Knocking Myself Up\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brief, sharp, and utterly consuming,\u003cem\u003e Women\u003c\/em\u003e is a sublime depiction of a battle between the head and hormones. Like your first love, it lingers long after the final chapter.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTegan Quin, New York Times bestselling co-author of High School\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With precision, wit and tenderness, \u003cem\u003eWomen\u003c\/em\u003e charts the frenzy and the fall out of love.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you agree that there’s no better pickup line than, “have you read Chloe Caldwell’s ‘\u003cem\u003eWomen\u003c\/em\u003e’?”, look no further than the reissue of “Women.” Get horny and devastated all over again through this short but powerful story of a young woman who moves to a new city and falls under the spell of an older lesbian…who has a girlfriend but can’t stay away. The updated edition of the 2014 cult favorite novella that Tegan Quin called “brief, sharp and utterly consuming” includes brand-new (spicy!) text and a foreword by queer author Katie Heaney.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWomen\u003c\/em\u003e is an ode to heartbreak, an allowance to seep in the pain.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWrite or Die\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWomen\u003c\/em\u003e is a skillfully and engrossingly written novel, a small slice of overwhelming love and heartbreak, and the search for belonging and self. Caldwell proves herself as a writer to watch in the coming years.”   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Masters Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What is refreshing about\u003cem\u003e Women\u003c\/em\u003e is its storytelling through the female gaze, and how this informs our questioning and resolution of identity. \u003cem\u003eWomen \u003c\/em\u003edoesn’t profess to be a feminist novella, and I didn’t notice this distinction until I meditated on why the book feels so different from classic coming-of-age fiction and memoir.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The story is powerful, hot and will have you thinking 2015 is the year of the lesbian.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“How do you make a reader love someone? How do you make them feel those dizzying, crazy-making pangs of a relationship’s beginning and end? Chloe Caldwell has all the answers. This is a book that, more than anything, feels completely real.”   - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Imagine how awesome it would be to read something about a series of relationships with complicated, real women from the POV of a complicated, real woman? Pretty awesome, right? You have no idea; Caldwell’s \u003cem\u003eWomen\u003c\/em\u003e will blow you away.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A beautiful story about the author’s ?rst same-sex love affair, manages to address frankly how different it is to be with a woman without making sexual orientation itself the subject or the obstacle of her story.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAutostraddle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I just finished reading \u003cem\u003eWomen\u003c\/em\u003e—in one sitting! I loved the emotional honesty, sexiness and sparseness of it. In its roller-coaster of emotions, it reminded me of Eileen Myles’ awesome \u003cem\u003eChelsea Girls\u003c\/em\u003e.”   - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatherine Texier, author of Break Up: The End of a Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”Heady, evocative and sensual. Caldwell’s exploration of relationships and identity blends brutal and fragile truths with great skill. A remarkable talent.”   - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnneliese Mackintosh, author of Any Other Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I read it all in one sitting, all at once, because I couldn't put it down. I loved it. I love its physical size, turning it over with one hand. I also love the size of what you put in it. I want to reread it with a pencil so I can mark things to remember.”   - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZoe Kazan, writer, actress, and director\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Whenever anybody is coming out, I give them a book called\u003cem\u003e Women\u003c\/em\u003e. . . . I’ve shipped it to people. I love that book. I give it to everybody that’s coming out.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarja Lewis-Ryan, writer and director of The L Word: Generation Q\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With \u003cem\u003eWomen\u003c\/em\u003e, Chloe Caldwell is to Millennials what Anais Nin was to previous generations–a voice that is raw, intimate, thoughtful, compelling. 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