Author Description

<b>A cracklingly funny and poignant debut novel about the ways we love, even when we’re not at our best.</b><br>  <br> Stacey Lane feels like a monster. Tommy DeMarco might be one.<br><br> Since her husband died eight months ago, Stacey’s been a certified mess—a poet who can’t write anymore, a good mother who feels like she’s failing her kids. She’s been trying to redefine herself, to find new boundaries.<br><br> Tommy has no respect for boundaries. A surprisingly well-read A-list Hollywood star, Tommy’s fallen in love with Stacey’s novel-in-verse, a feminist reimagining of <i>Frankenstein</i>, no less. His passion for the book, and eventually its author, will set their lives on a collision course. They’ll make a movie, make each other crazy, and make love—but only in secret. <br><br> As Stacey travels between her humdrum life in the suburbs of Omaha and the glamorous but fleeting escape Tommy offers, what begins as a distracting affair starts to pick up weight. It’s a weight that unbalances Stacey’s already unsteady life, but offers new depth to Tommy’s. About desire, love, grief, parenthood, sexual politics, and gender, <i>Monsters: A Love Story</i> is a witty portrait of a relationship gone off the rails, and two people who are made for each other—even if they’re not so sure they see it that way.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>