“A radical, sex-positive exploration”

Author Ivelisse Rodriguez on To Love Like Venus:

“A radical, sex-positive exploration of the necessity for love with sex. Even in the future, this is the ongoing, pivotal question we must answer for ourselves. To Love Like Venus though, shows us that that question can also obfuscate all the ways we really love.”
— Ivelisse Rodriguez, author of Love War Stories

I was introduced to Dr. Rodriguez’s work at a lovely garden book launch event in uptown Manhattan. I remember the event fondly: the lovely neighborhood people, the friendly publisher, her smile, and to the day–the best book swag I’ve ever received. It was a pen with a heart on top and it was so specific to her book. Wait, I get to read about Puerto Rican girls in love??? Wait, someone understands that love pairs with war??

“Love War Stories
Puerto Rican girls are brought up to want one thing: true love…

Finalist for the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Finalist for the 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES Award
Best Book/Most Anticipated Book/Recommended Read of 2018: Cosmopolitan.com, The Root, Electric Literature, Bustle, Book Riot, PEN America, PopSugar, The Rumpus, B*tch, Remezcla, mitu, and others.”

Do check out her website
https://ivelisserodriguezauthor.com/
to order her book. I’ll also have a fun raffle at a book launch event for To Love Like Venus with her book (minus the pen).

TLLV cover by Baris Sehri