Lily Meyer presents THE END OF ROMANCE

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Join us on Wednesday, February 4, in Remington to celebrate the release of Lily Meyer's new novel, The End of Romance! Lily will be in conversation with Baltimore writer and editor Nate Brown!

About The End of Romance:

A big-hearted, wise, unceasingly buoyant novel about a woman who, after escaping a bruising marriage, theorizes that happiness is possible solely with the eradication of all romance--only to find a love that could change her life forever

Sylvie Broder was taught early to embrace joy. The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors whose greatest priority was enjoying the life they'd snatched back from Hitler, Sylvie believes in the tenacious pursuit of pleasure—yet, somehow, finds herself trapped in a suffocating, emotionally abusive marriage. With enormous fortitude, Sylvie frees herself and turns to graduate school, where she develops a new philosophy: Straight women will find true liberation and happiness only once romance is eradicated.

Now, Sylvie prides herself in separating sex from tenderness—having fun with men, but never committing to one. Then she meets Robbie and Abie, and finds her philosophy sorely tested. A warm and gentle man, Robbie treats Sylvie with patience and enormous kindness, offering her comfort she hasn't had since childhood. Abie is passionate and dynamic, a man who challenges Sylvie, and with whom she finds herself constantly disarmed. With both men, she feels a deep desire that looks, worryingly, a lot like love.

Cleverly constructed, delightfully funny, and beautifully written, The End of Romance is an anti-romance romance novel that charts its fallible heroine's tumultuous journey to love and happiness with erudition and deep feeling—a story for anyone who, despite their very best efforts, has fallen in love, and wondered why.

The End of Romance releases on Tuesday, February 3. Preorder your copy here!

Lily Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novels (Viking, 2026) and (Deep Vellum, 2024). She is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many other journals

Nate Brown is a writer and editor whose stories, essays, interviews, and reviews have appeared in One Story, the Iowa Review, LitHub, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Publisher’s Weekly, Electric Literature, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. He is the editor-at-large of the award-winning literary journal American Short Fiction and a senior lecturer in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University.

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