Ruby Lang does a lot of things well, but one of my favorites is the way she creates women who are “kind of an asshole” and the men who love them. In her novella, I am Trying to Break Your Heart, Natalie Chen used to be an asshole but mostly she is trying not to be one now. Ben Nakamura used to be in love with her and he is trying not to be in love with her again. Nat is much more successful than […]
But of course, in his version, he’d also written a person who would eventually let herself be loved-and could shoot flames out of her fingers.
I am Trying to Break Your Heart by Ruby Lang