Jurassic Jackass; the Uffizi Museum of Dysfunction

Jurassic Jackass: The Uffizi Museum of Dysfunction is a satirical memoir that turns heartbreak into high art. Told through a museum-style narrative of "exhibits," it curates one woman's relationship with a charmingly avoidant Italian man whose emotional architecture proves as unstable as a Renaissance ruin.

Francesca Vale, a real-estate writer and brand strategist, applies her eye for structure to the fragile frameworks of love and self-delusion. Each exhibit part essay, part confession unco...