How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays

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How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays

An insightful, charming, and absolutely fascinating memoir from the author of the popular New York Times essay, â€œTo Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,â€ (one of the top five most popular New York Times pieces of 2015) explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy.

What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer.

In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, Catron deconstructs her own personal canon of love stories. She delves all the way back to 1944, when her grandparents first met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver, drawing insights from her fascinating research into the universal psychology, biology, history, and literature of love. She uses biologistsâ€™ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from in the first place. And she tells the story of how she decided to test a psychology experiment that sheâ€™d read aboutâ€”where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questionsâ€”and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship.

In How to Fall in Love with Anyone Catron flips the script on love and offers a deeply personal, and universal, investigation.

Country	USA
Author	Mandy Len Catron
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781501137464
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfPages	257
PublicationDate	2017-06-27
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2017-06-27
Studio	Simon & Schuster

How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays

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