<b>Now a <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller<br><br>A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the&nbsp;pleasures and perils of modern romance from one of this generation’s sharpest comedic voices</b><br><br>At some point, every one of us embarks on a&nbsp;journey to find love. We meet people, date, get&nbsp;into and out of relationships, all with the hope&nbsp;of finding someone with whom we share a deep&nbsp;connection. This seems standard now, but it’s&nbsp;wildly different from what people did even just&nbsp;decades ago. Single people today have more&nbsp;romantic options than at any point in human&nbsp;history. With technology, our abilities to connect&nbsp;with and sort through these options are staggering.&nbsp;So why are so many people frustrated?<br><br>Some of our problems are unique to our time.&nbsp;“Why did this guy just text me an emoji of a pizza?”&nbsp;“Should I go out with this girl even though she&nbsp;listed Combos as one of her favorite snack foods?&nbsp;Combos?!” “My girlfriend just got a message from&nbsp;some dude named Nathan. Who’s Nathan? Did he&nbsp;just send her a photo of his penis? Should I check&nbsp;just to be sure?”&nbsp;<br><br>But the transformation of our romantic lives&nbsp;can’t be explained by technology alone. In a short&nbsp;period of time, the whole culture of finding love&nbsp;has changed dramatically. A few decades ago,&nbsp;people would find a decent person who lived in&nbsp;their neighborhood. Their families would meet&nbsp;and, after deciding neither party seemed like a&nbsp;murderer, they would get married and soon have&nbsp;a kid, all by the time they were twenty-four. Today,&nbsp;people marry later than ever and spend years of&nbsp;their lives on a quest to find the perfect person, a&nbsp;soul mate.<br><br>For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming his&nbsp;comic insight at modern romance, but for<i>Modern&nbsp;Romance</i>, the book, he decided he needed to take&nbsp;things to another level. He teamed up with NYU&nbsp;sociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massive&nbsp;research project, including hundreds of interviews&nbsp;and focus groups conducted everywhere from&nbsp;Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analyzed&nbsp;behavioral data and surveys and created their own&nbsp;online research forum on Reddit, which drew&nbsp;thousands of messages. They enlisted the world’s&nbsp;leading social scientists, including Andrew Cherlin, Eli Finkel, Helen&nbsp;Fisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, Sherry&nbsp;Turkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike any&nbsp;social science or humor book we’ve seen before.<br><br>In <i>Modern Romance</i>, Ansari combines his&nbsp;irreverent humor with cutting-edge social science&nbsp;to give us an unforgettable tour of our new&nbsp;romantic world.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>