Ada Calhoun: Crush

This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

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When a husband asks his wife to consider what might be missing from their marriage, what follows surprises them both—sex, heartbreak and heart rekindling, and a rediscovered sense of all that is possible.

She's happy and settled and productive and content in her full life—a child, a career, an admirable marriage, deep friendships, happy parents, and a spouse she still loves. But when her husband urges her to address what the narrow labels of husband and wife force them to edit out of their lives, the very best kind of hell breaks loose.

Using the author's personal experiences as a jumping off point, Crush is about the danger and liberation of chasing desire, about the havoc it can wreak, and most of all the clear sense of self one finds when the storm passes. Destined to become a classic novel of marriage, and tackling the big questions being asked about partnership in post-pandemic relationships, Crush is a sharp, funny, seductive, and revelatory novel about holding on to everything it's possible to love—friends, children, parents, passion, lovers, husbands, all of the world's good books, and most of all your own deep sense of purpose.

Ada Calhoun is the New York Times–bestselling author of Crush: A Novel, hailed on the Today Show as the month's Best Romance, praised by the Washington Post for its "whirlwind of desire and possibility," and named by TIME as one of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 and by ELLE as one of the 29 Best Novels of 2025. Her memoir, Also a Poet, the New York Times called “a contribution to literary scholarship, molten with soul." Past books include Why We Can't Sleep, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give, and St. Marks Is Dead.

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