Love Like That

A darkly humorous debut collection of stories about complicated women navigating love, relationships, and life's messy moments.
Love Like That is a sharp, witty book about brilliant, broken women who are just the right amount wrong. Named a Best New Book of 2021 by Vogue and Refinery29, and longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for a Debut Short Story Collection, these stories follow girls and women - misfits and misanthropes, bickering sisters, responsible daughters, and unhappy wives - as they struggle with love triangles, family ties, and the complications of marriage in small-town America.
From a woman navigating a new kind of love triangle when she moves in with a divorced dad, to a lonely teenage beach attendant finding uneasy comradeship with her boss, to a high school English teacher pushed to her limits by a plagiarizing student, Duffy-Comparone's characters are often caught between desire and duty, guilt and resentment. With sly, wicked humor, even at the darkest turns, these stories explore what it means to get lost in love and do what it takes to find yourself again.
Utterly singular and wholly unforgettable, Emma Duffy-Comparone's Love Like That heralds the arrival of an irreverent and dazzling new voice in literary fiction.