A Sunday Times (London) bestseller. Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vogue, Vulture, and ELLE UK. 'Uncommonly wise and honest. Love in Exile flooded me with a sense of continuity and hope. A masterpiece from start to finish.' --Maggie Nelson, author of Like Love 'Should be required reading for anyone who wants to join a dating app, love ethically, or experience true partnership with other humans.' --Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood and The Dry Season A disarmingly wry treatise-cum-memoir on love in a lonely age by a celebrated thinker and columnist for Vogue. Love is supposedly attainable for us all. But for most people, especially women, success with 'love'--the yardstick we use to measure our value across romance, parenthood, sex, religion, and friendship--can feel out of reach, an experience frequently ascribed to a personal failing. This sense of unworthiness is, according to Shon Faye, 'a form of exile: an intentional, punitive banishment that serves political ends.' Faye, a
