Made for love alissa6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Intimacy exists for these characters only by proxy. Byron, whose skin feels "refrigerated," calls it an opportunity "TO FULLY NETWORK WITH YOUR BELOVED SPOUSE." Hazel's story is interspersed with that of Jasper, a former con artist who had a freak accident that left him only attracted to dolphins. Hazel is not there willingly: She's fled the chilly embraces of her husband, tech mogol Byron Gogol, of Gogol Industries, who wants to have a chip put in her brain that will give him access to all her thoughts, "like a file share thing," according to Hazel. Her latest, Made for Love, opens with the protagonist, Hazel, arriving at her father's trailer to find him cohabitating with a sex doll named Diane, "the kind designed to provide a sexual experience that came as close as possible to having sex with a living (or maybe, Hazel thought, a more apt analogy was a very, very recently deceased) female." ![]() Her last novel was the nauseating but addictive story of a female sexual predator. How?Īlissa Nutting's plots arrive with all the irrepressible, grotesque flamboyance of a flasher at a funeral. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Made for Love Author Alissa Nutting ![]()
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