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Conversations on Love: Lovers, Strangers, Parents, Friends, Endings, Beginnings
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Author:
Natasha Lunn
Publisher:
Viking
Date:
April 19, 2022
Journalist Natasha Lunn was almost 30 when she realized that there was no map for understanding love. While she was used to watching friends fall in and out of love, the older she got the more she had to acknowledge: her friends' relationship struggles could no longer be chalked up to youth, and the more she learned about her parents, grandparents, work colleagues, and mentors the clearer it became that age had not brought any of them any closer to understanding this elusive, transformative, consuming emotion. One night during the months she found this realization settling over her, she sat up in bed and jotted three words in a notebook: conversations on love. In that moment, Lunn understood that she didn't want advice about love, she wasn't looking for the answers, or evergreen wisdom but she craved candid, wide-ranging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the parts of love that often don't make it into our everyday discussions of marriage, sibling relationships, friendships, or mother/daughter bonds.
What The Reviewers Say
Whatever stage you’re at, from adolescent heartache to parenthood or bereavement, this deep dive into the human heart will expand and enrich your perspective on love.
Like all good first-person writing, Lunn’s dilemmas strike a fairly universal note that will resonate with many readers.
Many of the interviews here reflect on themes pertinent to the moment: the unbearable uncertainty of love, the psychology of being alone.
A moving meditation on life and loss..
