CRUSH
Writers Reflect on Love, Longing, and the Lasting Power of Their First Celebrity Crush
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What's it like when you're so in love, so infatuated that you can hardly breathe? What happens when you've fallen in love with David Cassidy or James Franco or Carrie Fisher or Kim Novak? The subject of going head over heels for unreachable celebrities hardly sounds earthshaking or laugh-out-loud entertaining, but it's all that and more when narrated by the talented Kaleo Griffith and Lynde Houck, who deliver all the charm, truth, embarrassment, and emotional nuance in these 38 essays by contemporary writers. Hearing these fine writers wear their hearts on their sleeves turns out to be one of the best listening experiences of the year, both magical and poignant. B.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
January 25, 2016
This charming book takes a look at first crushes—the ones that leave an “indelible image” and happen when our young selves believe “anything and everything both possible and futile.” Jodi Picoult recalls running away at six years old, taking her Donny Osmond pillowcase; Nicola Yoon “kissed Michael Jackson every day for over a year.” Some crushes were painful and scary, awakening feelings of “forbidden” love and a respite from family life. Some weren’t about love at all but the ability to feel part of a “choir of lonely voices.” The contrast between crush and crushee is what makes some of the stories so appealing: the 12-year-old boy in Okinawa in 1955 who falls for Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan, the “short Jewish guy” crushing on towering basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. One crush is on a cartoon character (Speed Racer) and two involve Little House on the Prairie. The authors do a remarkable job collecting different types of crushes while keeping the reminiscences short and sweet (one is just half a page). Carolyn Parkhurst’s zippy celebrity fantasy provides a pleasingly lighthearted conclusion to a book that balances heartbreak and relief, blind love and terror. Agent: Kimberly Perel, Wendy Sherman Associates
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