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The Hypothetical Girl by Elizabeth Cohen is a collection of short stories of love, identity and internet.

Each character is looking for love online, usually a transformative love that will solve everything and bring brilliance to the mundane. They each want so very desperately to meet and connect with someone else online.

There’s a hint of the bizarre running through the book, but isn’t meeting and falling in love kind of bizarre anyway? Cohen’s characters pretend to be Icelandic yak farmers while living a perfectly average life, or pretend a normal life over unpleasant circumstances. They pretend, through the magic of online profiles and early conversations, to be just slightly better than they are. Each story plays on the themes of misrepresenting oneself and of discovering something unexpected. I don’t want to recap any one of the short stories because I think a summary of events would miss the real point.

Full Review at The Hypothetical Girl :: Simpson's Paradox… (altro)

If you are single and an adult in this day and age, chances are you have either seriously checked out, flirted with, or used the services of some sort of online dating service. Elizabeth Cohen recognizes this modern-day trend and, in a series of short stories, outlines some of the sadder and more pitiful stories that can emerge from the online dating world. The Hypothetical Girl is a collection of short stories that is witty, funny, and sometimes painfully accurate in portraying life in the modern, technological world.

Read the rest of this review at The Lost Entwife on Dec. 4, 2013.… (altro)