Love Potions for an Obsessive Age: On Mo David’s “Bring Your Lover Back”

Bring Your Lover Back

He’s Peter, she’s Wendy, but this is no storybook romance. From the first pages of Bring Your Lover Back, the rockiness of this relationship is palpable—even before the reader learns of the small velvet box stuffed deep in Peter’s jacket pocket. But Peter’s ability to delude himself sends him on a journey of desperate efforts to win her—or someone—to love.

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