Dana Spiotta

"From the strikingly original National Book Award nominee, a riveting novel set in Los Angeles and New York that focuses on three women--how they define themselves, how they create meaningful work, how they love"--

A Novel

Innocents and Others

Abigail F

She thought if she could figure out the place they came apart, she could fix it and he would return to her. Being left was bottomless. Not only in the moment, but the way it gave the lie to all the moments that preceded it. Is that true? Is love real and true only ifit continues? Was it revealed to be "not love" when it unraveled?

There was something unbridgeable init. But that was such a ridiculous idea, as if any human experience couldn't be bridged. How to build the bridge? You talk about it and find the things you understand in it. The pieces of your own experience in the other. That's the bridge, she thought.

"Sometimes doing something you love is the most restorative thing. TV seems to relax you, but it is the relaxation of being drugged. It deadens you, and you want something deeper and more satisfying.”

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