The Heart You Can't Have: Stories of Impossible Love

This is not a book of tidy love stories.

In these ten stories, people fall in love with the wrong person, at the wrong time, or in a way that can never fully exist in the real world. A fire lookout lives for fifteen minutes of small talk with a woman who will never choose him. A poet becomes the pet project of a married woman who loves being his muse more than she ever loved him. A therapist quietly destroys a patient in the name of "helping." A woman who cannot stay faithful keeps chasing t...