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Animal instinct : a novel / Amy Shearn.
"A darkly humorous and tantalizing pandemic-ridden portrait of sex, divorce, and midlife, about a Brooklynite who Frankensteins the perfect lover"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593718339 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 274 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
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| Subject: | Chatbots > Fiction. Divorced women > Fiction. Interpersonal relations > Fiction. Midlife crisis > Fiction. Online dating > Fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Humorous fiction. Domestic fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Shear | 31681010411155 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
In spring 2020, newly divorced Brooklynite Rachel Bloomstein navigates online dating, flirtations, casual romance and even programs an AI chatbot to meet her emotional needs, only to discover that real life may offer more than her fantasies ever could. - Penguin Putnam
The world has stopped. But Rachel is just getting started…
Itâs spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomsteinâmother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklyniteâis stuck inside. But her newly awakened sexual desire and lust for a new life refuse to be contained. Leaning on her best friend Lulu to show her the ropes, Rachel dips a toe in the online dating world, leading to park dates with younger men, flirtations with beautiful women, and actual, in-person sex. None of them, individually, are perfect . . . hence her rotation.
But what if one person could perfectly cater to all her emotional needs?Â
Driven by this possibility, Rachel creates Frankie, the AI chatbot she programs with all the good parts of dating in middle age . . . and some of the bad. But as Rachel plays with her fantasy to her heartâs content, she begins to realize she canât reprogram her ex-husband, her children, her friends, or the roster of paramours thatâs grown unwieldy. Perhaps real life has more in store for Rachel than she could ever program for herself.
