Over the past eight years, journalist Lisa Taddeo drove across the country six times to embed herself with ordinary women from different regions and backgrounds to create this deep nonfiction portrait of desire. Told with astonishing frankness and immediacy, this is a groundbreaking portrait of erotic longing in today’s America, exposing the fragility, complexity, and inequality of female desire with unprecedented depth and emotional power. It is both a feat of journalism and a triumph of storytelling, brimming with nuance and empathy, that introduces us to three unforgettable women—and one remarkable writer—whose experiences remind us that we are not alone.

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