Love Me Back
Merritt Tierce
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Marie is a waitress at an upscale Dallas steakhouse, attuned to the appetites of her patrons and gifted at hiding her private struggle as a young single mother behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. It's a world of long hours and late nights, and Marie often gives in to self-destructive impulses, losing herself in a tangle of bodies and urgent highs as her desire for obliteration competes with a stubborn will to survive.
Pulsing with a fierce and feral energy, Love Me Back is an unapologetic portrait of a woman cutting a precarious path through early adulthood and the herald of a powerful new voice in American fiction.
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A gorgeous, dirty razor of prose - sharp and dangerous and breathtaking.It's an awesome book.An unflinching and galvanic novel full of heart and heartache; one of my favourite books of the last few years.Breathtaking, addictive, sexy, raw and honest . . . my favourite debut of the year.You won't find so much as a sentimental comma in this staggeringly fine debut novel, and that's part of the thrill and terror of reading it.Brilliant, devastating . . . Love Me Back is one of those exquisitely rare novels that feel desperate and urgent and absolutely necessary. - New York Times Book ReviewTierce writes with a visceral, unsentimental directness . . . Love Me Back succeeds both as a behind-the-scenes rendering of the extreme demands placed on workers in the restaurant business and a portrait of a desperate, thwarted young woman. - New YorkerTierce writes poignantly of the pain and loneliness, [but] Love Me Back is also filled with the kindness and humour that people offer one another when they know there's no one else. - Paris Review
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