The Kobayashi Maru of Love

by Carljoe Javier · 2010

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Javier's post-breakup essays, universal in scope and galactic in magnitude, trace the chronological arc from the lover's disconnection notice, the final severance, and the getting by- which, depending on one's predilections, can be the road to ruin or the ultimate fast track to freedom. By turns elegiac riff and breezy romp, these essays are the work of an original mind at play.

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