The Story of E

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This was a recommendation from my mom, who is a big listener here.

And, you know, sends me romance stuff, like articles and things, but has never...

And she wrote...

She was like, I strongly recommend this book for your podcast.

And it sounds great.

Here, can I read you the description? It just came out in February.

And...

The description is, Sylvie Broder was taught early to embrace joy.

The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors whose greatest priority was enjoying the life they'd snatched back from Hitler, Sylvie believes in the tenacious pursuit of pleasure, yet somehow finds herself trapped in a suffocating, emotionally abusive marriage.

With enormous fortitude, Sylvie frees herself and turns to graduate school where she develops a new philosophy.

Straight women will find true liberation and happiness only once romance is eradicated.

Now, Sylvie prides herself in separating sex from tenderness, having fun with men but never committing to one.

Then she meets Robbie and Aby and finds her philosophy sorely tested.

A warm and gentle man, Robbie treats Sylvie with patience and enormous kindness, offering her comfort she hasn't had since childhood.

Aby is passionate and dynamic, a man who challenges Sylvie, and with whom she finds herself constantly disarmed.

With both men, she feels a deep desire that looks worryingly a lot like love.

Cleverly constructed, delightfully funny, and beautifully written, The End of Romance is an anti-romance romance novel that charts its fallible heroine's tumultuous journey to love and happiness with erudition and deep feeling.

A story for anyone who, despite their very best efforts, has fallen in love and wondered why.

Oh my god, I can't wait to read it.

Sounds great.

Sounds so good.

I think Lily Meyer is a writer for The Atlantic, and this is her first novel.

I can't wait to read this.

Are you going to read it? Are you going to do audio? What are you going to do? I don't know.