With unsentimental prose and ironic dialogue, Katie Boland brings to life a variety of characters who all have one thing in commona need for something more. A literary debut by a refreshing new voice in fiction, the stories in *Eat Your Heart Out* are about the haunted and heartbroken, about dreamers, losers and love-lost souls. From a sixteen-year-old autistic savant who’s sleeping with his best friend’s mother, to a tattooed beauty coming to terms with an alcoholic parent, to a newspaper man forever changed by a tender drifter, to a grief counsellor trying to reconcile her own tragic loss, the stories examine the fragility of human relationships and why people love the way they do.Bold, poignant and affecting, *Eat Your Heart Out* is a clear-eyed exploration of youth, life, love, sex, and death.Wörter : 58937eboox : (retail)