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Crush: A Novel (Unabridged) - Ada Calhoun

By Ada Calhoun

Release Date: 2025-02-25

Genre: Fiction

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Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, Elle, and Marie Claire

ā€œAda Calhoun writes with absolute clarity about the giddiest and most destabilizing feelingā€”the crush. This novel made me feel dizzy and I loved every second. Calhoun can seduce me any day of the week.ā€
ā€”Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow

When a husband asks his wife to consider what might be missing from their marriage, what follows surprises them bothā€”sex, heartbreak and heart rekindling, and a rediscovered sense of all that is possible

Sheā€™s happy and settled and productive and content in her full lifeā€”a child, a career, an admirable marriage, deep friendships, happy parents, and a spouse she still loves. But when her husband urges her to address what the narrow labels of ā€œhusbandā€ and ā€œwifeā€ force them to edit out of their lives, the very best kind of hell breaks loose.

Using the authorā€™s personal experiences as a jumping-off point, Crush is about the danger and liberation of chasing desire, the havoc it can wreak, and most of all the clear sense of self one finds when the storm passes. Destined to become a classic novel of marriage, and tackling the big questions being asked about partnership in postpandemic relationships, Crush is a sharp, funny, seductive, and revelatory novel about holding on to everything itā€™s possible to loveā€”friends, children, parents, passion, lovers, husbands, all of the worldā€™s good books, and most of all oneā€™s own deep sense of purpose.

Crush: A Novel (Unabridged) - Ada Calhoun

By Ada Calhoun

Release Date: 2025-02-25

Genre: Fiction

(0 ratings)
Play Full Download
Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, Elle, and Marie Claire

ā€œAda Calhoun writes with absolute clarity about the giddiest and most destabilizing feelingā€”the crush. This novel made me feel dizzy and I loved every second. Calhoun can seduce me any day of the week.ā€
ā€”Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow

When a husband asks his wife to consider what might be missing from their marriage, what follows surprises them bothā€”sex, heartbreak and heart rekindling, and a rediscovered sense of all that is possible

Sheā€™s happy and settled and productive and content in her full lifeā€”a child, a career, an admirable marriage, deep friendships, happy parents, and a spouse she still loves. But when her husband urges her to address what the narrow labels of ā€œhusbandā€ and ā€œwifeā€ force them to edit out of their lives, the very best kind of hell breaks loose.

Using the authorā€™s personal experiences as a jumping-off point, Crush is about the danger and liberation of chasing desire, the havoc it can wreak, and most of all the clear sense of self one finds when the storm passes. Destined to become a classic novel of marriage, and tackling the big questions being asked about partnership in postpandemic relationships, Crush is a sharp, funny, seductive, and revelatory novel about holding on to everything itā€™s possible to loveā€”friends, children, parents, passion, lovers, husbands, all of the worldā€™s good books, and most of all oneā€™s own deep sense of purpose.

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