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Love Me Back
Love Me Back: A Novel | Merritt Tierce
From "5 Under 35" honoree and Rona Jaffe Award-winner comes an urgent, intensely visceral debut novel about a young waitress whose downward spiral is narrated in electric prose Marie, a young single mother, lands a job at an upscale Dallas steakhouse. She is preternaturally attuned to the appetites of her patrons, but quickly learns to hide her private struggle behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. In a world of long hours and late nights, where everything runs on a currency of favors, cash and cachet, Marie gives in to brutally self-destructive impulses. She loses herself in a tangle of bodies and the kind of coke that 'napalms your emotional synapses.' But obliteration—not pleasure—is her goal. Pulsing with fierce, almost feral energy, Love Me Back is an unapologetic portrait of a woman cutting a precarious path through early adulthood. In the words of Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, "Tierce roams like an avenging angel across the landscape of twenty-first century American decadence, and the truths she writes achieve a state of near-sacred subversion."
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ElectricKatyLand
Love Me Back: A Novel | Merritt Tierce
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I have a hard time recommending this as it‘s not enjoyable, but the writing and the characters are so, so powerful. A teen mom waitress struggles to define herself on her own terms and find agency in the service industry, drugs, and men that treat her terribly. Not uplifting. Still worthwhile.

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BiancaMarais
Love Me Back: A Novel | Merritt Tierce
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Maybe that's just what it is to be alive, you've got that broken sooty piece of something lodged inside you making you veer left.

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ohyeahthatgirl
Love Me Back: A Novel | Merritt Tierce
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This book was gritty, brutal, and written so beautifully. Merritt Tierce just wrote an article for MarieClaire admitting that despite selling 12000 copies and getting rave reviews, she's struggling to pay the bills. Reality check.

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SarahKay
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Picked this up on the recommendation of someone from here. So far I'm loving it.

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mauveandrosysky
Love Me Back: A Novel | Merritt Tierce
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Raw, devastating, visceral. An unflinching account of one woman's self-destructive patterns and inner anguish. Tierce's writing is sparse, precise and razor sharp: a perfect match for the content.

Girl_Power Loved this book so much, I had to carry it my bag for a week after finishing it, just to give it an occasional stroke or pat. 8y
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mauveandrosysky
Love Me Back: A Novel | Merritt Tierce
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The writing in this book is so good it's making me giddy. (Admittedly, I almost always love raw, gritty stories like this one.) Thanks for mentioning this one in one of your recent comments, @KiskyLuella!

KiskyLuella I LOVE THIS BOOK! I'm so glad you're enjoying it!! 8y
Taylor This looks good 8y
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