Heartsick

Heartsick unpacks the destruction of love by following the true stories of three lives altered by a major heartbreak.I wrote this book for the person who doesn't want to be told that this too shall pass. Not yet. Who wants to sit with it. And see it for what it is. Who wants to know they're not alone. That their pain is at once unique and universal. Belonging to them and everyone.When we're thrown into the chaos of heartsickness, we focus so much on the end. The fact we are now unloved seems so much more important than the reality that we once were.This book was born in the hours I've waited for men to message me back and who never did...In the years full of almost-relationships, I thought, "I cannot handle another rejection," and then found myself turned down by someone I wasn't even sure I liked. I wrote this book because I know what it is to feel fundamentally unlovable. I knew when I was looking for Ana,...