A collection of stories that explore the fraught and fantastic nature of human connection—featuring women, men, various couples, and one precocious baby enmeshed in tangled romances of all shapes and sizes.
Smart and often witty ... Schulman creates an engaging cast of characters struggling to balance their desire for stable relationships with the allure of sexual adventure ... One of Fools for Love's strangest and most entertaining stories is My Best Friend ... Another brief but enjoyable entry is The Memoirs of Lucien H. ... In these and other stories, Schulman's characters make enough foolish and self-indulgent choices to fill a volume twice the size of this slim one. But that's the stuff of enjoyable fiction, and she delivers it with style here
Urgent, funny, and wistful ... Wrenching ... Most of the stories in Schulman’s volume share [a] thrilling, rebellious tone ... Even toddlers, those embodiments of fascistic, irrational will, refuse to be suppressed in the Schulman canon: The Memoirs of Lucien hilariously gives life to the inner monologue of an id-ruled mini-tyrant. With both visions and revisions and a constant battle between restlessness and resignation, Helen Schulman’s new collection makes willing fools for love of us all. Her wild inner heart reaches out to our own, and as she says, 'who wouldn’t want a piece of that?'
The Memoirs of Lucien H. is a hilarious baby-eyed view of Lucien’s mother’s chaotic life as she flirts hopefully with a potential new 'daddy' ... A couple of ghosts add an edginess to these stories whose spiky, sex-driven characters are all, definitely, fools for love.
