Books Briefing: Giving Romance a Language
How to write about the feeling that’s hardest to communicate: Your weekly guide to the best in books
by Myles Poydras
Feb 14, 2020
3 minutes
The sweet little messages on Valentine’s Day candies and cards simplify romance in a pleasant, cheerful way. But the many nuances of affection are difficult to put into words.
Patrick Hamilton’s novels highlight the messiness of relationships,exploring all the ways love can be troublesome when it’s mismatched. The author André Aciman’s catches up with the central lovers of his celebrated novel after they’ve moved on from their years-ago fling. They still pinein which feelings seem impossible to articulate.The young protagonists in Mary H. K. Choi’s meet during one character’s panic attack and cultivate a romance through text messages, theirintimacy defined by the digital world.
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