{"product_id":"love-junkie-a-memoir-9781596916463","title":"Love Junkie: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eRachel Resnick hits her forties single, broke, depressed, and childless. Looking back over years of failed relationships, she identifies a lifelong addiction to love-an addiction to the unfulfilled fantasy of romantic bliss, marriage, and family, and to a string of sexual relationships that only carry her farther from that dream. As she peels back one raw layer after another, she must eventually confront the painful experiences of her childhood-and the difficult work of recovery that lies ahead. \u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking, compulsively readable memoir, \u003ci\u003eLove Junkie \u003c\/i\u003echarts Resnick's path from destructive love to intimacy, from despair to hope, and cracks open one of our more elusive and pervasive modern-day addictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Resnick \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eGo West Young F*cked-Up Chick\u003c\/i\u003e. She has published articles, essays, and celebrity profile cover stories nationally in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWomen's Health\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlackBook\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eTin House \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. Her essays and stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eWhat Was I Thinking?\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStricken\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Time of My Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDamage Control\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Failed Relationships\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Erotica 2004\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWomen on the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eL.A. Shorts\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAbsolute Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the founder and CEO of Writers On Fire, provider of luxury writing retreats both here and abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50359019634962,"sku":"9781596916463","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_147f668f-51fe-466d-8ea2-e57a943617f2.jpg?v=1728349217","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/love-junkie-a-memoir-9781596916463","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}