Made for Love (Nutting) - Book Reviews

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[Hazel] is the rare literary heroine in whose company it would be a pleasure to absolutely wreck my life.… The book is a total joyride, dizzying and surprising, like a state-fair roller coaster that makes you queasy for a moment but leaves you euphoric in the end.
New Yorker


Bizarre and brutally funny… relentlessly entertaining… Made for Love is a whip-smart critique of our relationship with technology and the ways we connect to other humans.
Harper's Bazaar


Provocative and irreverent, Made for Love is an absurdly hilarious musing on love and marriage.
W Magazine


Made for Love has a deviant instinct that make it initially captivating — but it doesn't do the necessary other work of a good novel. For all the ostensible unexpectedness (again, dolphins), it rarely surprises. And, for all that it plays on the idea of intimacy, the book gives us little sense of why we might want it, if people are just screens for mishap and absurdist sex
NPR.org


Made for Love will be one of the funniest, most absurd books you’ll read this summer.… Hilarious, clever, and strikingly original, Made for Love speaks to the absurdity of our societal obsessions with technology and wealth.
Buzzfeed


Nutting’s uniquely hilarious voice is the perfect guide to this darkly surreal, extremely relatable universe, in which the absurd becomes expected and our own personal hells feel like they’ve been perversely rendered in neon, airbrushed paint.
Nylon Magazine


Hilarious… Nutting’s smart, ribald, and hugely entertaining new novel provokes many chuckles. Occasionally, she reaches higher, and grants the reader flashes of something truly great: a striking view of the pathetic, that Gogolian, absurdist sublime.
Rumpus.com


Nutting deftly exploits the comic potential of perverse attachments, here to sex dolls, aquatic mammals, and technological devices.… Hazel’s story and touches on relevant themes of anonymity and objectification, [but] it never fully works. Nonetheless, the novel charms in its witty portrait of a woman desperate to reconnect with her humanity.
Publishers Weekly


A sly satire of our tech- and prosperity-obsessed society.
Booklist


[D]istinctive…and…darkly absurd …. But character-building is not among [the author's] strengths.… While Nutting borrows plot elements from thrillers, narrative momentum is constantly undercut by back story and scenes that are odd and amusing but not entirely necessary. An uneven effort from a terrific writer.
Kirkus Reviews