Made for Love Author:Alissa Nutting ?A total joyride, dizzying and surprising, like a state-fair roller coaster that makes you queasy for a moment but leaves you euphoric in the end.? ? The New Yorker From one of our most exciting and provocative young writers, a poignant, riotously funny story of how far some will go for love?and how far some will go to escape it. Hazel has just ... more »moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her widower father and Diane?his extremely lifelike sex doll?as her roommates. Life with Hazel?s father is highly unusual at best, but her only alternative seems bleaker. At thirty-five years old, she?s just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its pro-ducts and technologies indispensable to daily life. For over a decade, Hazel put up with being veritably quarantined by Byron in the family compound and having her every movement and vital sign tracked. But when Byron demands to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips in a first-ever human mind-meld, Hazel decides what was once merely irritating has become unbearable. The world Hazel escapes to is a far cry from the dry and clinical bubble she?s been living in, a world populated with a whole host of deviant oddballs. But while she tries to carve out a new life for herself in this uncharted territory, Byron is using the most sophisticated tools at his disposal to find her and bring her home. As his threats become more and more sinister, Hazel is forced to take drastic measures in order to find a home of her own and free herself from Byron?s virtual clutches once and for all. Alissa Nutting, the acclaimed author of Tampa, has returned with a second novel that proves to be just as dazzling and subversive as her debut. Perceptive and compulsively readable, Made for Love is at once an absurd comedy, a profound meditation on marriage and monogamy and family. « less