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Now an HBO Max series starring Ray Romano and Cristin Milioti
From one of our most exciting and provocative young writers, a poignant, riotously funny story of how far some will go for love--and how far some will go to escape it.
Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane--his extremely lifelike sex doll--as her roommates. Life with Hazel's father is strained at best, but her only alternative seems even bleaker. She's just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its products and technologies indispensable in daily life. For over a decade, Hazel put up with being veritably quarantined by Byron in the family compound, her every movement and vital sign tracked. But when he demands to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips in a first-ever human "mind-meld," Hazel decides what was once merely irritating has become unbearable. The world she escapes into is a far cry from the dry and clinical bubble she's been living in, a world populated with a whole host of deviant oddballs.
As Hazel tries to carve out a new life for herself in this uncharted territory, Byron is using the most sophisticated tools at his disposal to find her and bring her home. His threats become more and more sinister, and Hazel is forced to take drastic measures in order to find a home of her own and free herself from Byron's virtual clutches once and for all. Perceptive and compulsively readable, Made for Love is at once an absurd, raunchy comedy and a dazzling, profound meditation marriage, monogamy, and family.
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Guardian Review
"The stench of crisis on you now is at an all-time high," Hazel's father tells her. He's not wrong: Hazel is a perpetual Cinderella, still in rags despite having been swept off her feet by a (not so charming) prince. She has packed up and run away, back to her dad's, but how do you evade a husband who has planted a microchip in your brain? American author Alissa Nutting's first novel, Tampa, courted controversy by featuring a 26-year-old teacher who seduced her teenage male students. Here Nutting is on safer ground, taking on big tech and its deceptive promises of a streamlined, pain-free life. Byron, Hazel's husband, is a billionaire internet mogul pursuing global domination through gadgetry - a sort of unholy hybrid of Elon Musk and Tony "Iron Man" Stark. His tech is sufficiently advanced to bear out Arthur C Clarke's maxim that it's indistinguishable from magic, and Nutting has good fun describing his combination head-massager/web-browser and the like. But mainly he serves as a persecutor of Hazel, who had only managed to ensnare him originally through flattery, lies and the total suppression of her true self. Nutting touches on the feminist issues raised by this scenario, but only intermittently. She is a funny writer, and her goal here seems to be to make every line a gag. Ludicrous situations proliferate, many involving the dad's two sex dolls, who are good springboards for comedy set pieces, such as when Hazel gets her arm stuck in one's mouth, or rather "Throatgina¿". An extended subplot about a conman whose sex life is derailed by a brush with a dolphin hits new heights of absurdity, and inspires some startlingly lush descriptions of marine nookie. Nutting deserves credit for envisioning the dangers of our surveillance-state tech economy, and milking them for all their ridiculousness. Generally, though, the humour is glib and depthless. Hazel is the classic hapless protagonist, forced into situations of maximum vulnerability, such as choosing a wedding dress, for laughs. Her eventual rescue is something of a deus ex machina - which could be excused, since the whole book is about gods in machines. The novel is a wild ride, with Nutting's foot firmly on the pedal the whole way; like most joyrides, though, it doesn't take you far.
Reseña de Booklist
Hazel is on the run from the one person she might not be able to escape: her tech-mogul husband, Byron, whose company, Gogol, is far-reaching and powerful. Hazel flees the pristine Gogol complex for her 76-year-old father's trailer, where she is shocked to find that her father is shacking up with a sex doll he has christened Diane. Even more problematic than her father's desire to be alone with his new, fake paramour is the disturbing discovery that Byron has inserted a chip into Hazel's head that allows him to download her memories every day. Byron wants Hazel back, and he is willing to do anything to get her to return to him, whether it's viewing her memories or dropping a virtual bomb on her with facts about her father's health. Just as she did in her first novel, Tampa (2013), Nutting pushes boundaries this time via a subplot with a charming con man who finds himself attracted to dolphins and though it's not as grounded as her debut, Nutting's second outing offers up a sly satire of our tech- and prosperity-obsessed society.--Huntley, Kristine Copyright 2010 Booklist
Reseña de New York Review of Books
ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE, by Gail Honeyman. (Penguin, $16.) Eleanor, the socially awkward, terrifically blunt heroine of this quirky novel, is a loner, spending her weekends alone with vodka and frozen pizzas. But a blossoming romance with her office's I.T. specialist, Raymond, and their friendship with an elderly man help stave off isolation, opening them all up to the redemptive power of love. THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich. (Flatiron, $17.99.) The author's work as an intern at the firm that defended an accused murderer and pedophile compels her to re-examine her own past abuse. She devotes herself to finding parallels between her molestation by her grandfather and the firm's client, and indicts what she sees as society's refusal to acknowledge wicked acts. MADE FOR LOVE, by Alissa Nutting. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $15.99.) After Hazel's husband - a wealthy, manipulative tech visionary - implants a chip into her brain, she leaves him, showing up at her father's senior living community to stay with him and his sex doll. As our reviewer, Merritt Tierce, put it, the novel "crackles and satisfies by all its own weird rules, subversively inventing delight where none should exist." THE OUTER BEACH: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore, by Robert Finch. (Norton, $16.95.) Finch, a nature writer, shares 50 years of observations from a stretch of shoreline. The book, arranged chronologically from 1962 to 2016, devotes a chapter to each place up the shore; our reviewer, Fen Montaigne, wrote that "Finch artfully conveys what is, at heart, so stirring about the beach: how its beauty and magisterial power cause us to ponder the larger things in life and drive home our place in the universe." OUT IN THE OPEN, by Jesús Carrasco. Translated by Margaret Juli Costa. (Riverhead, $16.) In this bleak, dystopic debut novel, a young boy flees his tormentors and family's betrayal into a parched, unnamed land. When he is joined by an old goatherd, the pair recalls Don Quixote as they make their way through a merciless world, trying to evade cruelty. Faced with suffering, the novel asks, will we respond with grace? I WAS TOLD TO COME ALONE: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad, by Souad Mekhennet. (St. Martin's Griffin/Henry Holt, $17.99.) As a Muslim of Moroccan descent raised in Germany, Mekhennet, a Washington Post reporter, has been able to access inner circles of Islamic militants. Her book takes readers into the world of jihadi recruiters and their targets, and assesses the risk the West faces.
Library Journal Review
After ten years of surveillance-heavy luxury living as wife to Byron, the founder of the ubiquitous Gogol Industries, -Hazel flees to her widowed father's trailer to find her septuagenarian parent unpacking a sex doll. Despite the changing locations, Byron still looms, via a brain-implanted chip intended to "Fully Network with Your Beloved Spouse"; every 24 hours, while Hazel upchucks, -Byron downloads all of the details of Hazel's life. Meanwhile, con man Jasper encounters an overly aggressive dolphin, leaving him unable to perform his job. He checks into Gogol Industries, until he's ousted, albeit armed with a syringe intended for Hazel. Nutting's (Tampa) latest seems to channel Dave Eggers's The Circle, bemoaning the all-reaching power of tech titans (and the inevitable possibility of downfalls). As the surreality here turns from clever to fatiguing, narrator Suzanne Elise Freeman seems to tire audibly as she presents these disconnected souls-Hazel, Byron, Hazel's father, Jasper, Hazel's off-the-grid lover-in two basic modes: desperate or growling (particularly for the men). She manages one final entertaining rally near book's end as sarcastic diner boss Ms. Cheese. VERDICT Tech-obsession warnings will likely require a more engaging presentation to prevent our eyes (and ears) from redirecting attention back to our siren screens.-Terry Hong, Smithsonian BookDragon, Washington, DC © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
