Love Me Back

Sharp and dangerous and breathtaking.... A defiant story about a young woman choosing the life and motherhood that is best for her without apology.” —Roxane Gay bestselling author of Bad Feminist. Marie is a waitress at an upscale Dallas steakhouse attuned to the appetites of her patrons and gifted at hiding her private struggle as a young single mother behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. It’s a world of long hours and late nights and Marie often gives in to self-destructive impulses losing herself in a tangle of bodies and urgent highs as her desire for obliteration competes with a stubborn will to survive. . Pulsing with a fierce and feral energy Love Me Back is an unapologetic portrait of a woman cutting a precarious path through early adulthood and the herald of a powerful new voice in American fiction.