About this Event
This ticketed event includes a paperback copy of The Unrequited Love Department. There will be a book signing to follow.
Can't attend the event? Signed books from Kristina Forest and Lauren Kung Jessen will be available for Brooklyn pick-up and shipping here. Must order by January 1.
About The Unrequited Love Department:
From USA TODAY bestselling author Kristina Forest, a whimsical workplace romance with a light speculative twist, about a hopeful romantic in the Unrequited Love Department of Cupid & Associates who’s forced to team up with a cynical coworker after she releases secret love letters into the world.
Joy works in the Unrequited Love Department of Cupid & Associates, where she catalogs secret longings and unanswered letters from people around the world. She believes in love—despite the fact that it has never chosen her back. When a moment of heartbreak leads her to make a catastrophic mistake and leak confidential unrequited love letters, Joy risks exposing the most private feelings of strangers everywhere—and losing the job she loves.
Cynical, guarded, and entirely unimpressed by Joy’s optimism, Charles from the Solutions Department has spent years fixing other people’s romantic messes while refusing to believe in love himself. Assigned to help Joy recover the leaked letters, the two are forced into close quarters—and an unexpected partnership—on a road trip to intercept secrets before they land in the wrong hands.
Along the way, as they witness love in all its messy, hopeful forms, Joy and Charles find themselves drawn to each other. But with their outlooks on love so at odds, their journey puts their fragile connection to the test.
From “a fantastic storyteller” (Rachel Lynn Solomon, New York Times bestselling author), this tender, funny, and magical workplace romance celebrates taking risks, letting go of the past, and believing that love—when it finally arrives—might just be worth everything.
About Kristina Forest:
Kristina Forest is the USA TODAY bestselling author of romance books for adults and teens. She earned her MFA in creative writing at The New School and she lives in New Jersey, where she can often be found rearranging her bookshelf.
About Lauren Kung Jessen:
Lauren Kung Jessen is the critically acclaimed author ofLunar Love,Red String Theory,Yin Yang Love Song,The Fortune Flip, andThe Santa Claus Con. Her rom-coms are filled with big feelings and lots of food. Lauren’s books have been featured inEntertainment Weekly, People, NPR, The Seattle Times, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, andNew York Post. She writes the Substackand lives in New York City.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Ripped Bodice, 218 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, United States
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