God Hates the Desperate

<p>Told with biting honesty and dark humor <em>God Hates the Desperate</em> is a confessional novel about desire envy female friendship and the violence women inflict on themselves and each other while trying to survive love in a world that rewards men for taking.</p><p>Set across girlhood university life and early adulthood the story follows Nalo as she navigates romantic disappointment religious guilt patriarchy and a dangerously intimate friendship with Maria the woman who mirrors everything she both wants and resents. As men come and go-selfish married lazy charming-Nalo's real reckoning unfolds inward where jealousy validation and revenge blur into self-betrayal.</p><p>Unapologetic raw and painfully human God Hates the Desperate interrogates what happens when women are taught that love is scarcity goodness is endurance and desire must be punished. It asks what desperation really costs-and who pays for it.</p>