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1 author picked Love/Aggression as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This audacious novel delivers a wallop of zany absurdity, impish satire, phantasmagoric imagery, and hyperbolically burlesque characters. Zoe is the very incarnation of pathological narcissism, while Lily is in hopelessly bad faith with herself. Watching the danse macabre of their imploding friendship makes for peak literary enjoyment.
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