Crush: 26 Real-Life Tales of First Love

Andrea N. Richesin

Harlequin, Jun 1, 2011 - Family & Relationships - 299 pages

Readers will fall head over heels for this nostalgic and irreverent collection.

Twenty-six bestselling authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and college dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found and lessons learned along the way. Whether heartbreaking or hilarious, their soul-baring honesty reminds us to keep reaching for true love wherever we can find it and for as long as it takes. Their intimate reflections will fascinate and move any reader who remembers her first love.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• When It Was All BrandNew: 23
• Sweet Nothings: 37
• Creative Writing: 57
• How Duran Duran Saved My Life: 75
• When We Two Parted: 95
• It Never Was Not Really: 111
• Consequently Yours Laurie Faria Stolarz: 131
• Love Illustrated: 151
• Just a Friend: 169
• The Subtle Art of CrushSuffocating: 189
• Uncle Greg a Giant Chicken: 205
• What Kitty Taught Me: 227
• Contributors Notes: 245

About the author

Andrea N. Richesin is the editor of The May Queen (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) which was excerpted and praised in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Bust, Daily Candy and Babble. As a follow-up to Because I Love Her, she is editing a forthcoming father-daughter anthology (Harlequin, May, 2010). She has worked for Thomson Publishing in London, Red Herring and Edutopia magazines, and McCann- Erickson in San Francisco. Visit her at nickirichesin.com.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Crush: 26 Real-Life Tales of First Love
• Author: Andrea N. Richesin
• Publisher: Harlequin, 2011
• ISBN: 1459205405, 9781459205406
• Length: 299 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / Love & Romance; Psychology / Psychotherapy / Counseling; Social Science / Human Sexuality