
Literary fiction
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P
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A Brooklyn man unsuccessfully juggles the women he's dating in this comedy of manners that feels a little too real.
Unlikeable narrator
Brainy
Buzzy
Snarky
Writer Nate Piven's star is rising. After several lean and striving years, he has his pick of both magazine assignments and women: Juliet, the hotshot business reporter; Elisa, his gorgeous ex-girlfriend, now friend; and Hannah, "almost universally regarded as nice and smart, or smart and nice," who holds her own in conversation with his friends. When one relationship grows more serious, Nate is forced to consider what it is he really wants.
In Nate's 21st-century literary world, wit and conversation are not at all dead. Is romance? Novelist Adelle Waldman plunges into the psyche of a flawed, sometimes infuriating modern man—one who thinks of himself as beyond superficial judgment, yet constantly struggles with his own status anxiety, who is drawn to women, yet has a habit of letting them down in ways that may just make him an emblem of our times.
Leah D.
Fort Myers, FL
Nate is someone I would absolutely hate in real life. He’s abhorrent. But the book was well written and I was able to relate to the snarky undertone, coming from the same area in Brooklyn
Leah R.
Magnolia, DE
Adelle Walden destroys a certain type of man in this book…it’s incredible. Loved it.
Chelsea C.
Horsham , PA
Kayden S.
Brooklyn, NY
Brooke-lin H.
Davison, MI