Playing with Matches: A Novel - Softcover

Orenstein, Hannah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501178482 ISBN 13: 9781501178481

Publisher: Atria, 2018

Synopsis

Named a Best Book of Summer by Refinery29, Bustle, and PopSugar

"The best rom-com of the season...overflowing with charm and heart." --Bustle
"The perfect Summer read--smart, funny, escapist, and bursting with charm." --PopSugar

In the tradition of Good in Bed and The Assistants comes a funny and smart comedy about a young matchmaker balancing her messy personal life and the demands of her eccentric clients.

Sasha Goldberg has a lot going for her: a recent journalism degree from NYU, an apartment with her best friend Caroline, and a relationship that would be amazing if her finance-bro boyfriend Jonathan would ever look up from his BlackBerry. But when her dream career falls through, she uses her family's darkest secret to land a job as a matchmaker for New York City's elite at the dating service Bliss.

Despite her inexperience, Sasha throws herself into her new career, trolling for catches on Tinder, coaching her clients through rejection, and dishing out dating advice to people twice her age. She sets up a TV exec who wanted kids five years ago, a forty-year-old baseball-loving virgin, and a consultant with a rigorous five-page checklist for her ideal match.

Sasha hopes to find her clients The One, like she did. But when Jonathan betrays her, she spirals out of control--and right into the arms of a writer with a charming Southern drawl, who she had previously set up with one of her clients. He's strictly off-limits, but with her relationship on the rocks, all bets are off.

Fresh, sweet, and laugh-out-loud funny, Playing with Matches is the addictive story about dating in today's swipe-heavy society, and a young woman trying to find her own place in the world.

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Review:

"Playing With Matches is a fun, drama-filled, behind-the-scenes look at the life and love of an elite New York matchmaker--from a former insider who's lived to tell the burning tale."
--Camille Perri, author of The Assistants and When Katie Met Cassidy

"Delightful. A fun and relatable rom-com for the Tinder age. Get ready to swipe right!"
--Georgia Clark, author of The Regulars

"If you grew up with Gossip Girl and you obsessed over Devil Wears Prada, this is the book for your life now! It's smart, fun, sexy, and deeply relateable for every Badass Babe!"
--Ann Shoket, author of The Big Life and former editor-in-chief of Seventeen

"Engaging . . . . A fun, fast read about dating in the city."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Hannah Orenstein is one of this generation's most essential voices on love. Everything her characters go through will stay with you for your twenties and beyond."
--Dana Schwartz, author of Choose Your Own Disaster

"Sasha, a likable heroine with a quick wit and a self-destructive streak, will appeal to fans of Marian Keyes, Helen Fielding, and Sloane Crosley . . . . a realistic yet romantic portrait of modern dating."
--Booklist

"The perfect Summer read -- smart, funny, escapist, and bursting with charm."
--PopSugar

"A breezy story that will go perfectly with a margarita on the beach . . . . satisfyingly realistic."
--Jewish Exponent

"A laugh-out-loud work that singles, marrieds, suburbanites, and urbanites all will clamor for . . . . With an ending twist that will hit readers like a splash of vodka and tonic in the face of their blind date, this novel is one to pack in your beach bag."
--Library Journal

"Millennials looking for their perfect beach read this summer need look no further than this delicious romp through the madness of dating in your twenties."
--Jo Piazza, co-author of The Knockoff

About the Author:

Hannah Orenstein is the author of Playing with Matches and Love at First Like, and is the senior dating editor at Elite Daily. Previously, she was a writer and editor at Seventeen.com. She lives in Brooklyn.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1501178482
• ISBN 13: 9781501178481
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 321