{"product_id":"9781771966245","title":"Self Care","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGlobe\u003c\/em\u003e 100 Best Book of 2025 • A \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e Fall Book of 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn electric examination of women and men, sex and love, self-loathing and twenty-first century loneliness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween writing a weekly column for The Hype Report and managing her mood stabilizers, Gloria navigates a series of quasi-relationships while commiserating with her best friend about dating apps and dick pics, married men and questionable boundaries. But when she makes a glib pass at Daryn, a stranger on a subway platform crowded with young anti-immigration protesters, and finds him waiting for her outside her health club a couple of days later, a surprising curiosity leads her not to consider a restraining order, but to talk to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaiming she wants to interview him for an article on the incel movement, Gloria meets Daryn for coffee and soon invites him back to her apartment—where his earnestness and painfully restrained desire inspire her to dominate him sexually. As their physical relationship intensifies, so does their emotional connection, and Gloria can’t shake the sense that she’s headed in a dangerous direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn electric examination of sex and love, self-loathing, and twenty-first century loneliness, \u003cem\u003eSelf Care\u003c\/em\u003e is a devastating novel about women and men, what they want and what they say they want, and the violent tension between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Russell Smith (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":43169013792835,"sku":"9781771966245","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/3523\/2323\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1bc905bb-018b-4498-8f17-3b0bd037b953.jpg?v=1776813168","url":"https:\/\/thebookshop613.ca\/products\/9781771966245","provider":"The Bookshop 613","version":"1.0","type":"link"}