I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness

By Claire Vaye Watkins,

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A 2022 LA Times Book Prize Finalist

A darkly funny, soul-rending novel of love in an epoch of collapse-one woman's furious revisiting of family, marriage, work, sex, and motherhood.

Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much…

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1 author picked I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

“The story starts at…the point perhaps at which I became aware of my inability to feel any feelings beyond those set to music by the Walt Disney Company,” Claire, the narrator of I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness admits on the novel’s very first page.

And so we’re primed when she does what is probably considered by many to be the most monstrous thing a woman can do: she leaves her child. Interspersed with sections about family history and old letters that shed light on complicated dynamics, the book moves us through Claire’s journey as she pushes back against…

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