Hysterical Love: a novel, by Lorraine Devon Wilke
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Hysterical Love: a novel, by Lorraine Devon Wilke
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"Soul mates? I thought that went out with est and macramé...." Dan McDowell, a thirty-three-year-old portrait photographer happily set to marry his beloved Jane, is stunned when a slip of the tongue about an "ex-girlfriend overlap" of years earlier throws their pending marriage into doubt and him onto the street. Or at least into the second bedroom of their next-door neighbor, Bob, where Dan is sure it won't be long. It's long. His sister, Lucy, further confuses matters with her "soul mate theory" and its suggestion that Jane might not be his... soul mate, that is. But the tipping point comes when his father is struck ill, sparking a chain of events in which Dan discovers a story written by this man he doesn't readily understand, but who, it seems, has long harbored an unrequited love from decades earlier. Incapable of fixing his own romantic dilemma, Dan becomes fixated on finding this woman of his father's dreams and sets off for Oakland, California, a mission fraught with detours and semi-hilarious peril. Along the way he meets the beautiful Fiona, herbalist and flower child, who assists in his quest while quietly and erotically shaking up his world. When, against all odds, he finds the elusive woman from the past, the ultimate discovery of how she truly fit into his father's life leaves him staggered, as does the reality of what's been stirred up with Fiona. But it's when he returns home to yet another set of unexpected truths that he's shaken to the core, ultimately forced to face who he is and just whom he might be able to love.Lorraine Devon Wilke, author of the acclaimed debut novel, AFTER THE SUCKER PUNCH, brings her deft mix of humor and drama to a whip-smart narrative told from the point of view of its male protagonist. HYSTERICAL LOVE explores themes of family, commitment, balancing creativity, facing adulthood, and digging deep to understand the beating heart of true love. "This is one of those books which exceeded all my expectations. I was expecting a romance with a couple of twists to the tale but what I got was something far deeper and more satisfying. -- Ali Levett, A Women's Wisdom Book Blog "Wilke is a skilled writer, able to plausibly inhabit Dan's young male perspective... A well-written, engaging, sometimes-frustrating tale of reaching adulthood a little late." - Kirkus Reviews Cover design by Grace Amandes @ gracemandes.com Cover photograph by Lorraine Devon Wilke
Hysterical Love: a novel, by Lorraine Devon Wilke- Amazon Sales Rank: #2308178 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .79" w x 6.00" l, 1.02 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 314 pages
Review "A well-written, engaging, sometimes-frustrating tale of reaching adulthood a little late."- Kirkus Reviews"I never found a writer who was as good as DH Lawrence, but could also get into a man's head and tell that story. Until now." - Barb Taub, Writing & Coffee Book Blog"I loved this book! Loved, loved, loved it. Witty, pointed, funny, even hilarious at times." - Tracy Slowiak, Readers' Favorite Book Reviews"Hysterical Love is a deftly told tale about the search for love in the 21st century." - Literary Fiction Book Review2015 B.R.A.G Medallion Honoree - IndieBRAG
From the Author Your debut novel, After the Sucker Punch, also dealt with family secrets and estranged parent-child relationships. What is it about these themes that intrigues you? They're relatable, almost always a mix of humor and drama (great fun to write!), and probably the most universal themes in existence. We all have a family of some kind, so there's always something within the politics of that group that will resonate with most readers. How did growing up in a big family influence your work? It gave me an insider's seat in the dramatic and evolving culture that is a big family, allowing me to observe and explore those dynamics in as natural and experiential a way as possible. Dan is a male protagonist with a strong, quirky perspective. Was it a challenge to craft such a well-rounded male character? I have five brothers, a son, a husband, many male friends, and I spent years on the road in rock bands... I got my male bona fides! :) What do you think is the most important part of Dan's personal odyssey? Finding truth. Within his romantic relationships, his work, his family, and, most importantly, himself. Truth is always the grand prize. What inspired you to write Hysterical Love? An anecdote was shared with me by a guy who briefly fixated on his father's old girlfriend, sparking a compelling, "what if he actually made it a quest?" Folding in the notions of lost love, enduring heartbreak, and defining the validity of soul mates, a story emerged that ultimately became Hysterical Love. You're an author, a former rock-and-roller, a photographer, a singer-songwriter, and you've worked in theater and film. How do you feel these diverse experiences have influenced your writing? Each element of my creative life has given me unique perspective, amazing stories, and always compelling characters. I've dipped and double-dipped into each to flesh out and enrich my books. It's like living your own research! What (or who) were some of the biggest influences on your literary career? An early childhood without TV led to voracious reading, which inspired a passion for words, narrative, good stories, and great writers. So I guess you could say that not being able to watch Mickey Mouse inspired my writing! :) Which types of characters do you enjoy writing the most? The more human, flawed, heartfelt, real, irreverent, funny, and seeking, the better! What drives you to write? A desire to tell a story, express my thoughts, make a point. Do you have an overall goal as an artist in general, or specifically? To create meaningful, authentic work that inspires, entertains, and provokes thought... and to reach the biggest audience I possibly can in accomplishing that. What is the number one thing you hope readers take away from your book? Emotion. Feeling something. Being moved. I know... that's three things! ☺ Thank you for choosing Hysterical Love. It's a story I thoroughly enjoyed writing, exploring characters, ideas, and plot twists that dug deep yet still found the humor in it all. I hope you enjoy the read! For independent authors like myself, the support of readers is essential. In that spirit, I invite you to leave a short review of Hysterical Love here at this page once you've finished reading. Positive feedback goes a long way toward advancing the cause of writers and indie publishing in general, and I thank you in advance for your contribution! And I always love hearing from readers for whom the book resonated, so feel free to get in touch via info@lorrainedevonwilke.com. If you'd like more information or updates on this book or any of my other work, please visit my website at lorrainedevonwilke.com and my blog at rockpapermusic.com. For news, promotions and updates on my books, as well as evolving perspective on my adventures in publishing, be sure to visit AfterTheSuckerPunch.com. And thanks for reading!
About the Author Lorraine Devon Wilke - writer, photographer, singer and songwriter - started early as a creative hyphenate. First, there was music and theater, next came rock & roll, then a leap into film when a feature she co-wrote (To Cross the Rubicon) was produced by a Seattle film company, opening doors in a variety of creative directions. In the years following, she wrote for and performed on theater stages, developed her photography skills, and accrued a library of well-received feature screenplays. She kept her hand in music throughout--songwriting, recording, performing--leading to the fruition of the longtime goal of recording an original album (Somewhere On the Way). Accomplished in collaboration with songwriting/producing partner, Rick M. Hirsch, the album garnered stellar reviews and can be found at CDBaby and iTunes. She continues with music whenever she can (which, she maintains, is never, ever, enough!); a collection of her recorded material is available at SoundCloud. Devon Wilke's current life is split between Playa del Rey and Ferndale, California, and is shared with her husband, Pete Wilke, an entertainment and securities attorney, and son, engineer and web designer Dillon Wilke. She curates and manages both her fine art photography site and personal blog (RockPaperMusic.com), is a regular contributor at The Huffington Post, and writes a monthly column for the award-winning northern California newspaper, The Ferndale Enterprise. She invites you to access an archive of her essays and journalistic pieces @ Contently.com. In her latest adventure, both her debut novel, After The Sucker Punch, and her short story, "She Tumbled Down," were 2014 publishing successes, with 2015 seeing the launch of her latest novel, Hysterical Love. You can follow her "adventures in publishing" at her book blog AfterTheSuckerPunch.com. Contact: info@lorrainedevonwilke.comInformation/links: lorrainedevonwilke.com
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Brilliant, Thought Provoking Tale of Self-Discovery and Love By WordsAPlenty - charla white I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Dan McDowell has sought neatness, order and a clear cut path in his life. His plans to marry Jane fit within his needs and desires. That is until he puts his foot in his mouth and the chaos begins. He reveals after a moment of intimacy that he had had a few encounters with his ex-girlfriend prior to when his and Jane’s exclusiveness began. Jane, of course, doesn’t see it that way and promptly kicks him out of their home.Weeks of being ignored and not solving their issues weighs on Dan’s mind along with his father’s heart attack and the upheaval his life has become both at home and work. His sister Lucy gives him a manuscript his father wrote when he was a young man. In it is his “theory of soul mates.”Dan sets out to give his father some peace and while doing so finds answers for his father and himself.“Okay. I’ll just say it. I guess I’m a little stuck on this soul mate thing. … Yep, I’d become the girl. The girl who didn’t want to get down until she knew it “meant something.”Dan is a photographer by trade with a keen eye for artistic photos. He’s a good son, brother and friend; however, he is clueless when it comes to romantic relationships. He meets a woman and falls in love with her questioning whether or not they are soul mates.“Hysterical Love.”“What?”“A case of Hysterical Love … in the clinical sense.”I felt like he’d jabbed me with a needle. “Is that a real thing?”“Just think about it.”Lorraine Devon Wilke has captured and expressively written about the one dilemma that most couples encounter when they become serious – are they soul mates? Will they love one another forever? Will they be happy having only one person in their life to love forever? Further, she has taken the stereotypical role of the woman and placed it firmly on the man’s shoulder; skillfully turning the table and providing a fresh and unique glimpse into a man’s thoughts and world of romance. Within the first few pages, you cannot help but side with Jane but as Dan’s journey leads to self-discovery; you cannot help but see him differently and feel his confusion.Wilke is passionate about the development of her characters as they come to life with each word. The reader cannot help but connect to her characters. The plot is strong, fresh, balanced and delivered skillfully. It is a moving story and is a must read for anyone who has been, is, or thinks they may fall in love someday.Don’t miss this book. It is a wonderful read. Wilke is a truly gifted writer and one to watch grow; she will continue to provide thought provoking stories based on real issues.WordsAPlenty gives this book a highly deserved 5 star rating.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Recommended! By Bodicia This is one of those books which exceeded all my expectations. I was expecting a romance with a couple of twists to the tale but what I got was something far deeper and more satisfying.Lorraine Devon Wilke writes from a male perspective and does so very well. Here we have Dan, who life seems fairly well mapped out. He has the job prospects, the house and the beautiful woman whom he is about to marry. A passing comment, as the blurb says, lands him out on his ear and unsure of whether he still has a home. On top of that, he starts to questions his own feelings and wondering whether there is such a thing as a soul mate for everyone when he reads a long forgotten story his father wrote and sets out to find the answer.As I read on I really couldn't blame Jane, his fiancee, for kicking him out although how she managed not to say anything for several weeks to him was a bit hard to take. I admit a couple of times I cried. Yep, the tears welled during some of the scenes with Dan's father and remembering my very own Esther at her beloved's bedside being bright and breezy when she was anything but inside. Lorraine certainly pulls at the heart but she also lightens the mood and had me in snorts of giggles on occasion.I was a bit confused by Fiona the floaty hippy chick and Dan's relationship with her. It was like he was dreaming. Just laying there imagining this other woman with no substance and a waft of patchouli. Maybe he had eaten a slice of bad pie in one of those dodgy cafes in the novel and was suffering from indigestion. I think she just represented what he thought he needed and what his heart thought a soul mate was or should be. That was my only puzzlement with this book. The rest was very much on point and a very enjoyable read.If you want a book with many layers and to be thoroughly entertained by a cracking story then this one is for you.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Hysterical Love: the perfect vacation read with ice cream By Barb Taub I like relationship books and movies. Always have. When I was twelve, it was Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades. I moved on to Shakespeare, Love Story, Jane Austen. It was all good in a boy-meets-girl-falls-in-love-and-they-either-die-or-HEA kind of way. Then I hit University as an English major and my advisor slotted me into the D.H. Lawrence seminar. On the first day, the professor told us Lawrence was important because his books – especially Lady Chatterley’s Lover – pierced the artificial barriers that intellectuals use to obscure the true nature of relationships and ushered in a brave new reality. All righty then. I tore into Lady C. And came up… empty. This was the great voice for women’s sexual freedom? Someone who couldn’t even figure out what a clitorus is for and says women use their ‘little beak’ to “tear, tear, tear, as if she had no sensation in her except in the top of her beak, the very outside top tip, that rubbed and tore” (Lady Chatterley’s Lover, DH Lawrence, 1928)Years (and many soothing Austen re-reads) later, I realized two things. First, Lady Chatterley was a man. Or at least, the voice of an insecure, self-centered, immature, misogynistic man who just happened to be one hell of a writer. Second, although most of the relationship stories I read involved men who just couldn’t commit and women who had to come to terms with/wait out/eventually get commitment/live HEA, the men I met in real life were almost all the exact opposite. As the boys I knew grew up to be men, the big-O that concerned them was the one that followed a 3 as their thirtieth birthday approached. The girls around me weren’t focussing on getting their man – women I knew were busy pounding on that glass ceiling. It was their men who were nervously standing on the sidelines holding the ticking biological clocks. They wanted the whole nine yards: wife, kids, house, lawn mower, and labrador retriever named Lucy.But I never found a writer who was as good as DH Lawrence, but who could also get into a man’s head and tell that story. Until now. In her new release, Hysterical Love, writer Lorraine Devon Wilke introduces Dan McDowell, a thirty-three year old Los Angeles photographer. Dan and his beloved Jane are all set to be grownups. They have the bungalow with the handpainted “Dan and Jane Live Here” door plaque. They live in a neighborhood filled with families, kids, and a daily visit from Tomas and his ice cream truck laden with toffee ice cream bars. They know each other’s likes and dislikes, favorite foods, and families. They have just set the date for their wedding. A chance remark leads to questions about commitment, and the next thing Dan knows, his HEA has blown up in his face. She gets the house, he gets custody of their gay best friend Bob. The plaque disappears.As I read this, I was increasingly uncomfortable. You see, I read relationship stories. A lot of relationship stories. And I realized that Wilke was writing Dan as the girl role, the one ready to be in love, get married, and have the whole package. Jane was the boy, the one with commitment issues. Wait, I thought. That can’t be right. But… it felt right. I started to think about the men I know, including the one I married. As they approached their thirties, they (most of them anyway) jettisoned their inner Peter Pan and wanted to be grownups. (Some of them reclaimed Peter Pan down the road, but that’s a completely different genre.) Once I mentally adjusted to seeing Dan through my real life counterparts, I realized that Wilke is a kind of genius. Or a damn good writer doing a better job of getting into the head of the opposite sex than DH Lawrence anyway.After that, she had me. When his father Jim is hospitalized, Dan’s complicated, competitive, and ultimately loving relationship with his father sends him on a ‘vision quest’, the heart of which is an investigation of what it means to be a soul mate. His spiritual journey (to Oakland) leads to truths about his parents’ relationship, the meaning of soul mates, and the importance of pie.Wilke combines humor, terrific writing, and some none-too-gently acquired truths into a different kind of relationship story. It might just be because I also grew up in California, but I felt like I knew these people. I had the same parents. (Okay, maybe my mother wasn’t quite so angelic as Dan perceived his mother Esther to be. I don’t think Esther was either.) But my father certainly would have said any of the lines that Dan’s father, Big Jim McDowell, pronounced. "Goddammit, what is it with you kids? You make everything so damn convoluted! This theory, that theory—you want a theory? You’re dealt a hand and you play it. End of story."(I kind of love Big Jim.)The pace is perfect. Or maybe it’s just that I couldn’t put the book down. But Hysterical Love was actually the perfect vacation read. At 282 pages it was the ideal length, Wilke’s feel for dialogue was funny and dead-on, the inside of Dan’s head was a slightly clueless but good place to be, and (warning: if you read this book, you WILL want ice-cream) there were plenty of ice cream vendors all around me. So five stars to Lorraine Devon Wilke for Hysterical Love. I can’t wait to go back and read her earlier novel, After the Sucker Punch, or to see what comes next.*I received this book for free from the publisher or author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.*
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