Love Junkie A Memoir

"A tell-all, in-your-face, tearing-off-of-the-sheets."Los Angeles TimesRachel Resnick hits her forties single, broke, depressed, and childless. Looking back over years of failed relationships, she identifies a lifelong addiction to lovean 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 childhoodand the difficult work of recovery that lies ahead.A groundbreaking, compulsively readable memoir,Love Junkiecharts 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.

Rachel Resnick is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick. She has published articles, essays, and celebrity profile cover stories nationally in the Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire, Women’s Health, and BlackBook. She is a contributing editor at Tin House magazine. Her essays and stories have appeared in What Was I Thinking?, Stricken, The Time of My Life, Damage Control, The Dictionary of Failed Relationships, The Best American Erotica 2004, Women on the Edge, L.A. Shorts, and Absolute Disaster. She is also the founder and CEO of Writers On Fire, provider of luxury writing retreats both here and abroad.

“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