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Love Me Back, September 2014
Hardcover / e-Book

LOVE ME BACK
By: Merritt Tierce

Doubleday
September 2014
On Sale: September 16, 2014
Featuring: Marie
224 pages
ISBN: 0385538073
EAN: 9780385538077
Kindle: B00J1IQVEQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction

From "5 Under 35" honoree and Rona Jaffe Award-winner comes an urgent, intensely visceral debut novel about a young waitress whose downward spiral is narrated in electric prose Marie, a young single mother, lands a job at an upscale Dallas steakhouse. She is preternaturally attuned to the appetites of her patrons, but quickly learns to hide her private struggle behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. In a world of long hours and late nights, where everything runs on a currency of favors, cash and cachet, Marie gives in to brutally self-destructive impulses. She loses herself in a tangle of bodies and the kind of coke that 'napalms your emotional synapses.' But obliteration—not pleasure—is her goal. Pulsing with fierce, almost feral energy, Love Me Back is an unapologetic portrait of a woman cutting a precarious path through early adulthood.

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