An inventive, mordantly funny novel about love, marriage,
stalkers, and the indignities of parenthood
In quaint Haddonfield, New Jersey, Tess is about to marry Gabe in
her childhood home. Her mother, Helen, is in a panic about
the guests, who include warring exes, crying babies, jealous
girlfriends, and too many psychiatrists. But the most difficult
guest was never on the list at all: a woman in a wedding dress and
a gas mask, armed with a rifle, a bomb trigger strapped to her
arm.
Lisa Zeidner's audacious novel Love Bomb begins as a
hostage drama and blossoms into a far-reaching tale about the
infinite varieties of passion and heartbreak.
Who has offended this nutcase, and how? Does she seek revenge
against the twice-divorced philanderer? Or is her agenda
political-against the army general? Or the polygamous Muslim
from Mali? While the warm, wise Helen attempts to bond with
the masked woman and control the hysteria, the hostages begin to
untangle what connects them to one another, and to their captor.
But not until the SWAT team arrives does "the terrorist of
love" unveil her real motives . . .
Critics have praised Lisa Zeidner's prose for its "unforced
edginess and power"; her fiction "shines with humor, wisdom,
and poignancy." In her most masterful novel yet, Zeidner gives us
a tough yet tender social comedy, a romance with guts, a
serious frolic written out of deep affection for all that it
skewers.
