She currently teaches at Grinnell College. Nutting has taught creative writing at John Caroll University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. At the University of Alabama, she served as editor of the Black Warrior Review. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama. Funny.Nutting attended Bloomingdale High School in Valrico, Florida. I did feel like the end was either forced or thought out first and just incorporated into the book to have a weird but eventually tied together feel, but I didn't organically feel it. I'm probably off base and not focusing on the correct thing about the story though. in a time where we really focus on not making anyone feel left out, or bullied or better than anyone else, I see it as having everyone feel the same. I see her as super relatable, I see my very own step daughter and a lot of young people nowadays in Hazel. The 2 separate worlds were not my favorite, and their merging was not my favorite either, but Hazel's story was, well, really great.

It was about things I wouldnt see myself choosing to read, but it was so well written that I really couldn't put it down. Heres the thing, as if you're waiting on me to tell you the thing, but, with this book, it was out of my comfort zone for sure. Weird, some unnecessary things, but well written Perceptive and compulsively listenable, Made for Love is at once an absurd, raunchy comedy and a dazzling, profound meditation on marriage, monogamy, and family. His threats become more and more sinister, and Hazel is forced to take drastic measures in order to find a home of her own and free herself from Byron's virtual clutches once and for all. The world she escapes into is a far cry from the dry and clinical bubble she's been living in, a world populated with a whole host of deviant oddballs.Īs Hazel tries to carve out a new life for herself in this uncharted territory, Byron is using the most sophisticated tools at his disposal to find her and bring her home. But when he demanded to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips in a first-ever human 'mind-meld', Hazel decided what was once merely irritating had become unbearable. She's just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its products and technologies indispensable in daily life.įor over a decade, Hazel put up with being veritably quarantined by Byron in the family compound, her every movement and vital sign tracked. Life with Hazel's father is strained at best, but her only alternative seems even bleaker. Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane - his extremely lifelike sex doll - as her roommates. From one of our most exciting and provocative young writers, a poignant, riotously funny story of how far some will go for love - and how far some will go to escape it.

Made for love by alissa nutting