Alissa Nutting

Smart, riveting ... Made for Love crackles and satisfies by all its own weird rules, subversively inventing delight where none should exist. So bright... so dark

Easily one of the funniest books about sex and modern technology you'll read this year

There is no one who negotiates the absurd as vigorously yet poignantly as Alissa Nutting... Brilliant, dense, hilarious writing that hurtles toward an ending that is both satisfying and unexpected

Blisteringly smart and feverishly inventive...This is a novel as frightening as it is hilarious, melding pathos, comedy, and delight as only great satire can

Bizarre and vivid and unexpected and wickedly funny. I promise you will enjoy the ride

Nutting deserves credit for envisioning the dangers of our surveillance-state tech economy, and milking them for all their ridiculousness ... The novel is a wild ride, with Nutting's foot firmly on the pedal the whole way.

Nutting is a deft guide through absurdity. As she further pushes the bounds, continuously testing the reader's trust in where they're being led, she melds a complete command on prose with increasingly unbelievable and wild situations. Made for Love, beneath the sex-doll-dolphin-fantasy face, inexplicably ends up a tale of loneliness, freedom, intimacy and reality.

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.

Alissa Nutting

Praise for Made for Love

Exudes valiant charm

Smart, riveting ... Made for Love crackles and satisfies by all its own weird rules, subversively inventing delight where none should exist. So bright... so dark

Easily one of the funniest books about sex and modern technology you'll read this year

Exudes valiant charm

Smart, riveting ... Made for Love crackles and satisfies by all its own weird rules, subversively inventing delight where none should exist. So bright... so dark

Easily one of the funniest books about sex and modern technology you'll read this year

Exudes valiant charm

Smart, riveting ... Made for Love crackles and satisfies by all its own weird rules, subversively inventing delight where none should exist. So bright... so dark

Easily one of the funniest books about sex and modern technology you'll read this year

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