Book review: Love Me Back
Love Me Back, the debut novel by Texas-born Merritt Tierce, is proof that you can.
Barely out of her own childhood, Marie is divorced and mum to a little girl she only sees on alternate weekends, working — too hard — as a waitress.
But away from the polished silverware and impeccable service, her life is a mess of booze, drugs, self-harm and sex.
It’s a reckless, yet purposeful, pattern, driven by guilt and pain, which Marie hide behinds her professionalism at work and ‘up for it’ reputation socially.
As she crashes and battles through life, Tierce’s pacey prose pulls you along with her.
There’s no pausing for apologies, or sentimental explanations, and no hero comes along and makes everything better.
It’s an odd contradiction, as a reader, to wish a story was different — for Marie’s life to be different — while at the same time lapping up its brilliance.
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