How to Fall Out of Love Madly: A Novel

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It was a godsend when the cramps eased up and she didn’t have a ton of side effects from the hormones either, as her mother had feared she might. Joy and Annie are friends and roommate but still unable to cover their rent, they get third roommate and in walks Theo who charms them. After months of hinting Annie’s boyfriend finally ask her to move in so the trio now becomes a duo, but Joy doesn’t mind because now she’s got Theo to herself. They spend a lot of time together and Joy ends up falling for him, only for him to show up a few weeks later with a girlfriend. Joy is confused but figures if she puts her best foot forward he will miraculously fall for her. Meanwhile, Theo's girlfriend Celine has been told all her life she is stunning but doesn’t really believe it. When Annie moves in with her boyfriend, she thinks this is what she wants but finds herself putting on this “easy breezy cool girlfriend” act that she may not be able to keep up. She wants commitment, but does she want it from her boyfriend? They took a picture of the empty guest room, soon to be the home of a stranger, and posted it alongside the description.

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Jana Casale is a master storyteller—observant, witty, sharp, and funny. How to Fall Out of Love Madly is an honest and compelling look at female friendship, romantic relationships, and infatuation.” —Jennifer Close, New York Times bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses and Marrying the Ketchups Annie was silent for a moment as she reread the post. “Let’s make a pact that no matter who moves in here, this is still our home and we’re not going to be pushed out by them,” she said. “I don’t want things to change just because someone new comes in.”I kinda didn’t care about Theo despite the synopsis making it look like he’d be a bigger deal. Joy simped for him so hard and he wasn’t worth shit. It made me cringe at some points but it was a good read. Things like that made them all feel like real people. Joy and Annie are friends and roommates whose thirtysomething existences aren’t exactly what they’d imagined for themselves. Struggling to make ends meet, they decide to rent their extra bedroom to Theo, who charms Joy with his salt-and-pepper hair and adoration of their one-eyed cat. When Annie goes to live with her boyfriend, Theo and Joy settle into a comfortable domesticity. Then Theo brings home Celine, the girlfriend he’s never mentioned and who is possibly the most stunning woman Joy has ever seen. Joy resolves to do whatever it takes to nurture the bond she and Theo have forged. Anything Celine might deny him, Joy will grant. Distracted by her need to please Theo, Joy fails to see that Celine’s beauty doesn’t protect her from her own insecurities. Celine is so haunted by an event in her past that she can’t access the confidence she yearns to exude. I inhaled this book, it’s exactly the type of contemporary writing that I love. If you’ve heard of this novel, I’m sure you’ve seen it compared to the works of Sally Rooney. The comparisons to Rooney come from a well-intentioned place, but they’re only partially right. Both of the authors are brilliant, and Jana Casale writes with a similar honesty and perceptiveness that Rooney is known for. Casale’s characters are a bit more touchable, though. This is not a dig at Sally Rooney, because she’s one of my favorite authors, but I felt like Casale’s character could be some of my own friends. Though she writes with that realistic worldview that can veer into the melancholy––if only for being frankly honest–– I still found that her writing had a more hopeful tone to it altogether.

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All of the men in this book were completely terrible people. It got to the point they were almost unbelievable; I would often be taken out of the story thinking, "ok, this would never actually happen." I'm too lazy to go through the entire book to find the exact quote, but I remember the book saying something like "there are very few good men in the world which is why so many women settle for less than their worth." One of the other secondary characters is also married to a man who, according to one of the women narrators, isn't funny or particularly interesting. Though the wife seems to be perfectly happy, all the narrator does is judge and berate her (not the husband) for the marriage because she thinks that her friend has "settled". How to Fall Out of Love Madly fearlessly explores three women’s shifting desires and the systems that do—and do not—constrain them. Casale is a master observer, and she renders the frustrations and joys of everyday life in piercingly clear prose. She is also mordantly funny.” —Grant Ginder, author of Let’s Not Do That Again and The People We Hate at the Wedding With wit, brains, and empathy, Jana Casale throws open the curtain on the inner lives of three young women and illuminates their pain and beauty. How to Fall Out of Love Madly is a literary triumph, and it’s also an absolute delight.” —Lauren Fox, New York Times bestselling author of Send for MeTo be honest, I found the form a bit confusing, though it is interesting; primarily, the perspective is third-person limited, but in each large section of the book there are brief first-person interludes from each of the main characters (barring one exception, the fourth section of the novel, which is narrated in the first-person by a fourth character).