In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss Audiobook

Quotes

• “Positive and genuine…Bloom provides her own narration, speaking of both her great love and devastating loss with equal parts emotional warmth and quiet composure…Bloom’s narration of it is remarkable. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

  — AudioFile

• “A pleasure to read…Rarely has a memoir about death been so full of life.”

  — USA Today

• “Renews those joys of being ‘In Love’ with the people around us—despite the numbing effects of routine and familiarity.”

  — Washington Post

• “This shimmering love story and road map is must-read testimony.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “A stunning portrayal of how love can reveal itself in life’s most difficult moments.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “I am full of admiration for this important memoir. The mastery of this book draws us in and delivers us, by the last page, changed.”

  — Amy Tan, #1 New York Times bestselling author

• “The subject is death, so the end is inevitable; but Bloom’s story is full of surprises and some of the most heartbreaking, honest, and funniest writing you’ll ever read.”

  — Roddy Doyle, New York Times bestselling author

• Bloom has a talent for mixing the prosaic and profound, the slapstick and the serious, which makes the book, despite its depressing subject matter, a pleasure to read. Rarely has a memoir about death been so full of life.

  — USA Today

• I’m not sure why I hadn’t until now read Bloom’s fiction. . . . Not reading her: my loss. Bloom has one of those warm, wised-up, tolerantly misanthropic New York voices, in the manner of Laurie Colwin and Sloane Crosley and Allegra Goodman and Nora Ephron, and an ability to deepen her tone at will.

  — Dwight Garner, The New York Times

• Reading this book is, purely and simply, a transcendent experience. In Love is a thrillingly beautiful, laser-eyed book about love, life, mortality, and, most remarkably, the ways in which no one of the three can be separated from the others. Prepare yourself to be heartbroken, expanded, unsettled, and filled with hope.

  — Michael Cunningham, author of A Home at the End of the World

• I read In Love in one sitting on a long flight and a flight never went by so fast. I am full of admiration for this important memoir. The mastery of this book draws us in and delivers us, by the last page, changed.

  — Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club

• In Love is a buoyant and entrancing memoir about one of the worst things that can happen to a couple. Bloom’s unfiltered glimpse into a working marriage is both a touchingly besotted portrait of her husband and a wrenching account of his gradual retreat from her. Their resolute approach to his death yields a story pulsing with raw life.

  — Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

• This is a beautiful, necessary book for anyone who loves their partner deeply and wonders and worries what the end might be like: poignant, kind, funny, and ultimately redemptive. One cries a lot, in the best of ways.

  — Alain de Botton, author of The Course of Love

• A remarkable book from one of the United States’s most consistently brilliant writers . . . The subject is death, so the end is inevitable; but Bloom’s story is full of surprises and some of the most heartbreaking, honest, and funniest writing you’ll ever read.

  — Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

• This shimmering love story and road map is must-read testimony. . . . You will never forget this book, and if you do, let’s hope someone close to you remembers.

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• A stunning portrayal of how love can reveal itself in life’s most difficult moments.

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)