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The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships

"Sex & The Citymeets The Wall Street Journal....Juicy, smart, dramatic and insightful—an addictive read."

—Beth Kobliner, author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties

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In The Secret Currency of Love, edited by Hilary Black, acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning women writers explore the fraught and powerful connections between love and money. As featured on the "Today Show"—with contributions by Karen Karbo, Kathryn Harrison, Lori Gottlieb, Julia Glass, Rebecca Traister, Dani Shapiro, Amy Sohn, and others—The Secret Currency of Love takes an unabashed look at relationships through the often-distorting lens of finance. As Ellemagazine informs us, "All the bases are covered here, from the hard lessons women learn (and impart) to the inextricability of romance and cold hard cash."

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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