Love Like That

Stories

By: Emma Duffy-Comparone

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Named a Best New Book of 2021 by Vogue and Refinery29
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Lit Hub

“A witty, provocative short story collection, filled with women who are delightfully difficult.” (Refinery29)

Love Like That is a joyfully subversive and moving debut collection of stories about brilliant, broken women that are just the right amount wrong.

Whether diving into complicated relationships or wrestling with family ties, the girls and women who populate this collection - misfits and misanthropes, bickering sisters, responsible daughters, and unhappy wives - don't always find themselves making the best decisions.

A woman struggles with a new kind of love triangle when she moves in with a divorced dad. A lonely teenage beach attendant finds uneasy comradeship with her boss. A high school English teacher gets pushed to her limits when a student plagiarizes. Often caught between desire and duty, guilt and resentment, these characters discover what it means to get lost in love, and do what it takes to find themselves again.

Utterly singular and wholly unforgettable, Emma Duffy-Comparone's stories manage to be slyly, wickedly funny at even their darkest turns and herald the arrival of an irreverent and dazzling new voice.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

©2021 Emma Duffy-Comparone (P)2021 Macmillan Audio

Says

There are other words to use when a character is speaking. In the first chapter alone, the writer uses “says” over and over again. I couldn’t listen anymore. I found that one word displaced me from the story. The second story, when “says” was used, I stopped listening for the fear of “says” being spoken again.