Here I am, a week past publishing date, ready to review. I read How to Fall Out of Love Madly over a month ago and I’ve been dying to sit down and write a review about it, but life got busy. As Joy, Annie, and Celine grapple with the ways their lives have been subverted by the forces of gender, money, power, and the need for intimacy, they realize their futures will be determined by how hard they’ll fight to reclaim control. Perceptive, mordantly funny, and full of heart, How to Fall Out of Love Madly tells the story of three women who believe in equality yet inexplicably tolerate terrible behavior from men, equating being desired with worth. But then an anonymous letter lands on her desk accusing her esteemed and supportive boss of sexual misconduct, and Annie is forced to decide who and what she’s willing to stand up for. At work, where she leans into her natural assertiveness, Annie is a star. Eager to please her commitment-phobic boyfriend, she can’t stop parsing his texts and pretending to be the easy-going, cool girl he wants. Celine is so haunted by an event in her past that she can’t access the confidence she yearns to exude.Īnnie is worried about Joy’s senseless devotion to Theo, but she has her own troubles. Distracted by her need to please Theo, Joy fails to see that Celine’s beauty doesn’t protect her from her own insecurities. Anything Celine might deny him, Joy will grant.
Joy resolves to do whatever it takes to nurture the bond she and Theo have forged. Then Theo brings home Celine, the girlfriend he’s never mentioned and who is possibly the most stunning woman Joy has ever seen.
When Annie goes to live with her boyfriend, Theo and Joy settle into a comfortable domesticity. Struggling to make ends meet, they decide to rent their extra bedroom to Theo, who charms Joy with his salt-and-pepper hair and adoration of their one-eyed cat. Joy and Annie are friends and roommates whose thirtysomething existences aren’t exactly what they’d imagined for themselves.
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