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| Author | Ada Calhoun |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House/Viking Press |
Publication date | February 25, 2025 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 978-0-5938-3202-8 |
Overview
[edit]Crush is an upcoming novel by American author Ada Calhoun, published by Viking Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. This book marks Calhoun’s debut into fiction following her well-regarded non-fiction works, including Also a Poet and Why We Can't Sleep. Categorized as literary fiction and contemporary romance, Crush is described by Viking this way:
“Using the author’s personal experiences as a jumping-off point, Crush is about the danger and liberation of chasing desire, the havoc it can wreak, and most of all the clear sense of self one finds when the storm passes. Destined to become a classic novel of marriage, and tackling the big questions being asked about partnership in postpandemic relationships, Crush is a sharp, funny, seductive, and revelatory novel about holding on to everything it’s possible to love—friends, children, parents, passion, lovers, husbands, all of the world’s good books, and most of all one’s own deep sense of purpose.”
Critical Reception
[edit]In a starred review, Booklist described Crush as an “angsty, metaphysical, literature-besotted love story” with a “brainy, funny, rigorously analytical, and determined narrator… Crush (such a charged word) interrogates all that we think we know about love and soul mates, commitment and conviction, while tracking the long struggle to fully become oneself and do right.”[1]
Kirkus Reviews said, “the novel bogs down a bit once the crush has peaked,” but that it is “chock-full of great lines… Anything Ada Calhoun wants to write is well worth reading.”[2]
- ^ "Crush by undefined". www.booklist.com. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
- ^ "CRUSH". www.kirkusreviews.com. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
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