This Is How You Lose Her
This is a collection of stories that explores the power of love in all its forms, obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love, as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
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What Hacker News says
- I wish when I was 14 I was exposed to more contemporary literature, instead of great classics. And I have no regrets about missing out on math books—most of my friends went to math camp for that kind of knowledge.
I'd recommend David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest; Junot Diaz's This is How You Lose Her; The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis; Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
I wish when I went into college I understood women better, people with mental health issues, sexuality, drugs, rich people, powerful people, old people.
He'll have 2x4 year periods where he'll be able to build long-lasting relationships. Understanding himself and other people will pay off much better than solving puzzles. So I'd stick to really aggressive contemporary fiction. He'll find math on his own.
- Some short story collections:
Longer Form (but all still quick reads):* This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz * Get in Trouble - Kelly Link * St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves - Karen Russell * The 10th of December - George Saunders * Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro * After the Quake - Haruki Murakami * The Girl in the Flammable Skirt - Aimee Bender* The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro * Death with Interruptions - Jose Saramago * The Whispering Muse - Sjon
