How can a book be so bright, and so dark?” - New York Times Book Review Made for Love crackles and satisfies by all its own weird rules, subversively inventing delight where none should exist. The book begins, and races along, as an antic thriller. Perceptive and compulsively readable, Made for Love is at once an absurd, raunchy comedy and a dazzling, profound meditation marriage, monogamy, and family.

His threats become more and more sinister, and Hazel is forced to take drastic measures in order to find a home of her own and free herself from Byron’s virtual clutches once and for all. The world she escapes into is a far cry from the dry and clinical bubble she’s been living in, a world populated with a whole host of deviant oddballs.Īs Hazel tries to carve out a new life for herself in this uncharted territory, Byron is using the most sophisticated tools at his disposal to find her and bring her home.

But when he demands to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips in a first-ever human “mind-meld,” Hazel decides what was once merely irritating has become unbearable. For over a decade, Hazel put up with being veritably quarantined by Byron in the family compound, her every movement and vital sign tracked. She’s just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its products and technologies indispensable in daily life. Life with Hazel’s father is strained at best, but her only alternative seems even bleaker. Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane-his extremely lifelike sex doll-as her roommates. Now an HBO Max series starring Ray Romano and Cristin Miliotiįrom the exciting and provocative writer of Tampa, a poignant, riotously funny story of how far some will go for love-and how far some will go to escape it.

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