Why Nothing is More Satisfying than an Addiction Memoir

And why ‘The Love Story of the Century’ is one of the best I’ve read

Nina Renata Aron

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The Finnish writers Märta and Henrik Tikkanen and their children, 1966.

This week, I picked up a book that has languished in my towering to-be-read stack for a year. It’s called The Love Story of the Century and it was written in 1978 by Finnish-Swedish author Märta Tikkanen, translated by Stina Katchadourian, and republished…

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Nina Renata Aron

Author of Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love. Work in NYT, New Republic, the Guardian, Jezebel, and more.