Awards
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Synopses & Reviews
A Chicago Tribune, Electric Literature, and BookRiot Best Book of the Year
A National Book Foundation “5 Under 35″ Author
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.
Review
“Tierce’s prose possesses the force, bluntness and surprise of a sucker
punch. . . . One of my favorite books of the last few years.” Carrie
Brownstein, co-creator of Portlandia
Review
“Hard to put down.” The Dallas Morning News
Review
“Breathtaking, addictive, sexy, raw and honest. . . . My favorite debut of the year.” Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins
Review
“A heart-cracking read.” The Chicago Tribune
Review
“A gorgeous, dirty razor of prose — sharp and dangerous and breathtaking.
This is a defiant story about a young woman choosing the life and
motherhood that is best for her, without apology.” Roxane Gay, author
of Bad Feminist
Review
“Brilliant, devastating. . . . Love Me Back is one of those exquisitely rare novels that feel desperate and urgent and absolutely necessary.” The New York Times Book Review
Synopsis
Sharp and dangerous and breathtaking.... A defiant story about a young woman choosing the life and motherhood that is best for her, without apology." --Roxane Gay, bestselling author of Bad Feminist
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.
About the Author
MERRITT TIERCE, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, was born and raised in Texas, and graduated from college at the age of 19. She received her MFA in fiction writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was named a Meta Rosenberg Fellow. In 2011, she was a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Merritt lives near Dallas with her husband and children.