Heartbroken

Praise

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR HEARTBROKEN:

“With lyrical prose and startling honesty, Laura Pratt writes about a familiar condition. Who among us has not been heartbroken? But despite the common thread running through this memoir, I’ve never read anything like it. There is such rare beauty in the candid generosity of Pratt’s words as she invites us to indulge our broken hearts, then take the pieces and build something new with the knowledge she has shared. Many will feel seen and comforted by this beautiful work of emotional art.” —Marissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky
 
“Laura Pratt is a marvelous writer. If you’re reeling from a fresh heartbreak—or still mystified by the impact of ancient one—Heartbroken will help you heal it. This is an astonishingly generous and profoundly intelligent book filled with arresting insights. It lets you in on the author’s own exquisite heartache and reckoning with it, while allowing you to more deeply understand your own relationship with loves lost. I devoured it.” —Haley McGee, author of The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale

“Beautifully lyrical, astonishingly honest and sparkling with humour and insight, Heartbroken changed the way I think about love and loss. In it, Laura Pratt gathers poets, philosophers, songwriters and scientists across the ages to help her explore and map the heart’s deepest valleys. It is an achingly generous, riveting tale filled with solace and grace.”
—Kim Pittaway, co-author of Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement

“With passion, courage and curiosity, Laura Pratt plunges into the deepest waters of loss and brings back a gift for all lovelorn readers who are plain fed up with being urged to buck up and move on. This book tells the truth: not everyone can.”
—Rona Maynard, author of Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World

“Most of us have suffered a heartbreak, however temporary. But Laura Pratt is unique in my experience—not just for the length and depth of her heartbreak but for her brilliant, close observation of a sorrow that would not go away. Threaded with joyful memories of sex, drugs and rock and roll, Heartbroken is also an anthology of poets, philosophers, scientists and therapists who have mused on unrequited love. I can’t imagine a better guide over this rough terrain than Pratt—curious, open-minded, unflinchingly honest and touchingly eloquent.” —Katherine Ashenburg, author of Her Turn and The Mourner’s Dance
 
“Laura Pratt is fearless with her mesmerizing account of aching vulnerability. Her commitment to honesty and authenticity is mind-blowing, and her generosity with sharing such a harrowing take on love is unparalleled. Her heart will mean the world to readers.” —Anne T. Donahue, author of Nobody Cares
 
“Make no mistake, Pratt, like Elizabeth Smart, will break your heart with her raw-to-the-bone confessional. But this writing is ‘smart’ in another way, teasing out the literary history, psychology, and physiology of heartbreak, and the lessons learned from her chosen ‘high frequency life.’” —Harry Thurston, author of Lost River: The Waters of Remembrance