Love Me Back

'Brilliant, devastating... one of those exquisitely rare novels that feel desperate and urgent and absolutely necessary' (New York Times) Love Me Back details the devastating self-destructive downward spiral of a young waitress trapped in the service industry. An uncomfortable, unflinching, unmissable US debut. Marie is a waitress at an upscale Dallas steakhouse, attuned to the appetites of her patrons and gifted at hiding her private struggle as a young single mother behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. It's a world of long hours and late nights, and Marie often gives in to self-destructive impulses, losing herself in a tangle of bodies and urgent highs as her desire for obliteration competes with a stubborn will to survive. Pulsing with a fierce and feral energy, Love Me Back is an unapologetic portrait of a woman cutting a precarious path through early adulthood and the herald of a powerful new voice in American fiction.