I didn’t want to be limited by what I happened to know about love and loss. I knew when I was looking for Ana, Patrick, and Claire that their stories had to be true, because within them would be nuances I’d never noticed before and realities I couldn’t have invented. I wrote this book because I know what it is to feel fundamentally unlovable. In the years full of almost-relationships, I thought, “I cannot handle another rejection,” and then found myself turned down by someone I wasn’t even sure I liked. This book was born in the hours I’ve waited for men to message me back and who never did… The fact we are now unloved seems so much more important than the reality that we once were. When we’re thrown into the chaos of heartsickness, we focus so much on the end. That their pain is at once unique and universal. I wrote this book for the person who doesn’t want to be told that this too shall pass. Heartsick unpacks the destruction of love by following the true stories of three lives altered by a major heartbreak.
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