"Laurie Essig is inviting us to go on a romantic vacation; to get away from it all, namely, from the peddlers of the fantasy that we can buy or brag our way to happily ever after. Say yes! Form a new relationship, with connection instead of competition, meaning instead of money, and the real you instead of YouTube. Is there true love after romance? There's only one way to find out."--Lisa Wade, author of
American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus
"Laurie Essig eloquently traipses around the globe, bringing us into the hunger for meaning and love.
Love, Inc. demonstrates the ways that consumer capitalism creates the very needs it cannot satisfy."--Michael Kimmel, author of
Healing from Hate: How Young Men Get Into--and Out of--Violent Extremism
