Ostrov

This is not your usual memoir - much less a typical love story. Loveland is about the unfolding of unmet expectations, of shattered childhood dreams, of tenderness found unexpectedly; it is the uncovering of different layers of one’s self, relationship after relationship. The rationale for understanding the engineering of love, in its infinite nuances, comes through the framework of literature. Books shape our perceptions: their characters set parameters, their stories create paradigms, and we live by them forever. If you’re interested in a different vision of happily-ever-after, this is the book for you.

Susan Ostrov holds an Ivy League doctoral degree and a long career as a Professor of English. She has previously published four scholarly books on the subject of women and their relationship to romantic love. Combining her expertise in classic romance novels with a personal account of her own experiences as a romantic woman, Loveland is part wry memoir and part serious cultural critique.