<p><b>A <i>Chicago Tribune,</i> <i>Electric Literature, </i>and <i>BookRiot</i> Best Book of the Year<br>A National Book Foundation &quot;5 Under 35&quot; Author<br></b><br>Marie is a waitress at an upscale Dallas steakhouse, attuned to the appetites of her patrons and gifted at hiding her private struggle as a young single mother behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. It’s a world of long hours and late nights, and Marie often gives in to self-destructive impulses, losing herself in a tangle of bodies and urgent highs as her desire for obliteration competes with a stubborn will to survive.<br><br>Pulsing with a fierce and feral energy, <i>Love Me Back </i>is an unapologetic portrait of a woman cutting a precarious path through early adulthood and the herald of a powerful new voice in American fiction.</p>