Advance Praise

"Pacifico's parody of the literary male is the 21st-century unreliable narrator we deserve."
--Los Angeles Times (Best new books of the month)

"Razor-sharp and mordantly funny, Pacifico's savage and startlingly, unsettlingly tender new novel is a masterful ode of the different forms of love, attachment, and obligation that hold us and, occasionally, hold us back."
--Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun

"Italy's most thought-provoking writer tackles the horror that is human relationships with style, humor and verve."
--Gary Shteyngart, author of Lake Success

"Francesco Pacifico's The Women I Love is a brutally honest compendium of the feelings and moments that too often get left out of the contemporary novel, a funny and surprisingly tender reckoning with sex, money, family life, and publishing. Reading it, I felt seen, and indicted."
--Andrew Martin, author of Cool for America

"The Women I Love is an intricate, elegant, unstinting novel that trains its acute, hyper-aware attention on complexities of gender and class. Francesco Pacifico has written a male confessional like no other, in which the narrator--Marcello, who thinks of himself as a great lover of women--gives us a catalogue of the women who have shaped him, much like Fellini does in 8 1/2. But Pacifico's Marcello surprises us with his honesty and his exacting self-critique. He dissects the classic entitled male, moving from condescension to humility, from objectification to compassion."
--Dana Spiotta, author of Wayward

"Imagine a Casanova who's outlived theory, therapy, and drugs, to write a last tender and desirously wise volume of memoirs about the women he (mostly) hasn't slept with: his mother, his sister, his sister-in-law, his editor, his friends. That's Francesco Pacifico, whose The Women I Love will love you back, whether or not you deserve it."
--Joshua Cohen, author of The Netanyahus