I Think She's Trying to Tell Me Something
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Publisher Description
Sportswriter Jack Byrnes is seeing lots of women...no matter how hard he tries not to.
See, a funny thing happened to Jack on the way to his thirtieth birthday. Everywhere he goes, he runs into a woman from his past: there's Mary Ann, whose random appearance in an Arizona airport started this mess; Amy, The One that Got Away, who has abandoned Boston for a fiancé and the Upper West Side; Connie, The Recent Ex who left-and reappeared-without any explanation; Danielle, the Freshman Fling turned bestselling chick lit author; and Nikki, Jack's first kiss, now happily residing in the West Village with the woman of her dreams.
Jack believes in a lot of things-his two best friends Bernie and Jeff, the Yankees, cold pizza to cure a hangover, the Yankees-but Fate has never been one of them. Still, this all can't be coincidence. Not when the Ghosts of Relationships Past show up just as Jack has met the perfect woman. The world must be trying to give Jack a signal, and maybe if he can read it right, this time he won't strike out.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This fumbling first novel proposes to enlighten the reader with the guy's take on modern romance. Baseball writer Jack Byrnes has fallen in love many times, amassing a bevy of "relationship ghosts" who strike on the cusp of his 30th birthday with a barrage of eerie sightings and chance encounters. From his first kiss now a happy lesbian to his live-in ex, to the college flame who skewers him in her bestselling novel, Jack's unwieldy romantic past crowds his life like a kudzu vine, threatening to siphon his energy from two new girls he's met cute in Manhattan. He starts to wonder if fate hasn't orchestrated this mess to teach him some profound love lesson. His colorful snippets about covering the Yankees hint at a better future novel, but the rest of the book reads like one rambling road map of both Manhattan and his mind, marked with booze-fueled rap sessions with his buddies. Graziano aims for the studied cool and quirky charm of Hornby's High Fidelity, but he's thwarted by an anticlimactic plot that feels as random as Jack's run-ins.
