num_pages: 217
description: On a beach in the Dominican Republic a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey a woman does her lovers washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston a man buys his love child his only son a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible irresistible Yunior a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessnessand by the extraordinary women he loves and loses: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own. In prose that is endlessly energetic inventive tender and funny the stories in This Is How You Lose Her lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience and that the half-life of love is forever.
language: English
title: This Is How You Lose Her
publisher: Riverhead Books