• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2022 June #1
  Readers of Taddeo's nonfiction debut, Three Women (2019), and first novel, Animal (2021), will feel at home with the cast of women who haunt her first short-story collection: powerful, incisive, deep-feeling people who chase sex and love, often as they run from trauma and other hurts. The title story is named for the dating app its now-famous protagonist, pining for her ex, developed: a program that coolly responds to lovers' messages on users' behalf. A dating app is also key to Grace Magorian, in which Grace emails Venus customer service after her crush, a man going by DigLitt, sends her an empty message and vanishes. In the memorable Air Supply, the narrator recalls a teenage trip to Puerto Rico with her best friend, its surprises and dangers. How did we get by? we think. And yet when we look back on the past, mostly we see happiness. In Taddeo's tantalizing stories, seven of nine of which have been previously published, death seeps in through the cracks, but so does lightness, humor, and a kind of freedom. Copyright 2022 Booklist Reviews.

Lisa Taddeo is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women, which she is adapting as a dramatic series at Showtime, and the novel Animal. She has contributed to The New York Times, New York, Esquire, Elle, Glamour, and many other publications. Her nonfiction has been included in the Best American Sports Writing and Best American Political Writing anthologies, and her short stories have won two Pushcart Prizes. She lives with her husband and daughter in New England.