Spotlight and Giveaway: Twenty-One Truths About Love

Today we're featuring Twenty-One Truths About Love by Matthew Dicks, which published this week. Thanks to St. Martin's Press, we have one copy to give away!

Matthew Dicks’s TWENTY-ONE TRUTHS ABOUT LOVE is the “original, radical, and extraordinary”* story of Dan Mayrock, a down-on-his-luck teacher-turned-bookstore owner, that unfolds entirely in lists.

1. Dan wants to do something special.
2. He’s a man tired of feeling ordinary.
3. Sick of feeling like a failure.
4. Of living in the shadow of his wife’s deceased first husband.

But these aren’t your average to-do lists. They range from the relatable, and funny (“Why raspberries are a bullshit food” and “Products that I’d better get the brand right when shopping or Jill will kill me”) to the very accurate (“What being a bookstore owner actually looked like today”) to the heartfelt (“Reasons I Fell in Love with Jill”). Together, they paint a profound picture of a man trying to be a good husband to the pregnant love of his life, save his bookstore from financial collapse, and, ultimately, become someone.

Hesitant to read a book written entirely in lists? Don’t be! There’s so much humor and authenticity to be found in its pages. Two pages in, you’ll be chuckling to yourself, three pages in, you’ll be nodding your head in agreement, and by the end, you’ll be proclaiming Matthew Dicks a genius.


*“It’s not quite enough to say that TWENTY-ONE TRUTHS ABOUT LOVE is original, it is radical, and extraordinary. I have no idea how Matthew Dicks made a story comprised entirely of lists feel so human, but that’s exactly what this story is: honest, vulnerable, hilarious, and profoundly human.”
~Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of the New York Times bestselling Daisy Jones & The Six

Photo by Holly M. Williams

Matthew Dicks is a writer and elementary school teacher. He has been published in the Hartford Courant, featured at the Books on the Nightstand retreat, and is a Moth StorySLAM champion. He is the author of four previous novels, Something Missing, Unexpectedly Milo, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, an international bestseller, and The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs. His novels have been translated into more than 25 languages. Dicks lives in Newington, Connecticut, with his wife Elysha, and their two children.

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Giveaway ends November 26th at midnight EST.