Love Junkie : A Memoir

Rachel 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.
A groundbreaking, compulsively readable memoir, Love Junkie charts 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.

“With staggering honesty, raw and unsparing humor, novelist Rachel Resnick outs herself as a love junkie.” —Vanity Fair

“Riveting…Resnick writes about her Dickensian past with no plea for sympathy.” —New York Post

“A painful story that is fascinating, and in a word, addictive.” —Cosmopolitan

“Resnick recalls her tumultuous relationships…Her stories are both horrifying and compelling…The voyeurs in us emerge.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Incredibly hard to put down…Brutally honest.” —New York Observer