Overview
Whether failing to restrain herself from trying to find greater meaning in roadkill, or to convince her dad that she doesn’t want to hear that her mom is a “sex goddess,” or to believably perform enthusiasm to her volleyball teammates, Elizabeth Zaleski is trying hard and failing spectacularly, and thankfully, she takes us along for the ride.
Funny, intimate, and candid, The Trouble with Loving Poets debuts an exciting new voice. From growing up in a quirky family in rural Northeast Ohio and attending Mennonite high school as a Catholic to failing to get over a particularly well-endowed lover to suffering explosive diarrhea while searching for closure after being dumped, Zaleski’s stories are at once captivating in their singularity and recognizable in their truthfulness. With levity and wit, she attacks such time-honored institutions as pet ownership and gives clear-eyed dispatches from the no man’s land that is an HPV diagnosis.
As Zaleski writes, “if you’ll bear with me, we’re going to get a bit technical. And then, I promise, it will all start to matter.”
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