Losing It: A Novel

By Emma Rathbone

Book Overview

A hilarious novel that Maggie Shipstead calls "charming... witty and insightful," about a woman who still has her virginity at the age of twenty-six, and the summer she's determined to lose it --and find herself. "A candid yet funny take on just what desire and love mean." - The Millions Julia Greenfield has a problem: she's twenty-six years old and she's still a virgin. Sex ought to be easy. People have it all the time! But, without meaning to, she made it through college and into adulthood with her virginity intact. Something's got to change.? To re-route herself from her stalled life, Julia travels to spend the summer with her mysterious aunt Vivienne in North Carolina. It's not long, however, before she unearths a confounding secret--her 58 year old aunt is a virgin too. In the unrelenting heat of the southern summer, Julia becomes fixated on puzzling out what could have lead to Viv's appalling condition, all while trying to avoid the same fate. For readers of Rainbow Rowell and Maria Semple, and filled with offbeat characters and subtle, wry humor,? Losing It? is about the primal fear that you just. might. never. meet. anyone. It's about desiring something with the kind of obsessive fervor that almost guarantees you won't get it. It's about the blurry lines between sex and love, and trying to figure out which one you're going for. And it's about the decisions--and non-decisions--we make that can end up shaping a life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594634777
• ISBN13: 9781594634772
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.9" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Losing it is a great leisure read

I read this book cover to cover in 9 days; it was the perfect book to take on vacation. It was lighthearted and well-written, with a story-line that kept you wanting more at the end of each chapter. The only reason I didn't love this book was because it wasn't as comical as I was expecting but still enjoyable. I also got so frustrated with the main character at times that I wanted to chuck the book across the room. Overall, would recommend this book.