50 Ways to Meet Your Lover

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Oscillating between comedy and melancholy, intimacy and estrangement, 50 Ways to Meet Your Lover, or How to Fight Loneliness gathers fifty interconnected vignettes into a panoramic portrait of humanity’s enduring need for companionship.

Humorous and quietly moving, Pickrell’s debut novel catalogues not only the fleeting moments in which individuals encounter one another, but the profound, lifelong ways they continue to strive for universal empathy.