Made for Love
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Publisher Description
A HBO Max series starring Ray Romano and Cristin Milioti
'Exudes valiant charm' New Yorker
'Blisteringly smart and feverishly inventive' Garth Greenwell
'Brilliant... hilarious... both satisfying and unexpected' Roxane Gay
Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane - his sex doll companion. Life with Hazel's father is strained at best, but it's got to be better than her marriage to dominating tech billionaire, Byron Gogol. For over a decade, Hazel has been quarantining in Byron's family compound, her every movement and vital sign tracked. So when Byron demands to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips, turning Hazel into a human guinea pig, Hazel makes a run for it. Will Hazel be able to free herself from Byron's virtual clutches before he finds her?
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A gloriously absurd and hugely entertaining satire about intimacy and love from the provocative writer of the acclaimed novel Tampa.
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As she did in Tampa, her first novel about an eighth-grade teacher's affair with a student, Nutting deftly exploits the comic potential of perverse attachments, here to sex dolls, aquatic mammals, and technological devices. Readers of Dave Eggers's The Circle will be familiar with Nutting's caricature of an ominous and ubiquitous technology giant, Gogol Industries, though this cautionary tale packs the profane punch of satirists like Carl Hiaasen. The story begins after a woman, Hazel, has fled her controlling husband, Byron, a cold-blooded, germaphobic, and distinctly un-Byronic tech titan who "treated his electronics like lesser wives." Hazel takes refuge in her father's trailer park home, vastly different from her former lodging, "the Hub," Byron's sterile compound that is at once a prison, spa, and hospital. Living with her father and his recently purchased sex doll, Hazel hopes to avoid Byron's near-omniscient gaze and forge a new, unsurveilled, and thrillingly unhygienic life. Elsewhere Jasper, a handsome hustler whose two great joys are "sex and conning people out of money," has a bizarre encounter with a dolphin, kindling in him an unquenchable cross-species desire. Though Jasper's zany plot strand eventually ties into Hazel's story and touches on relevant themes of anonymity and objectification, it never fully works. Nonetheless, the novel charms in its witty portrait of a woman desperate to reconnect with her humanity.
