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Imbued with longing erudition and hardearned wisdom Heartbroken dares to delve into a universal ordealperhaps the one that makes us the most human of all

When Laura Pratts longdistance partner of six years tells her its over at a busy downtown train station she is sent reeling the breakup coming out of the blue He meanwhile closes himself off refusing to acknowledge Laura and her requests for explanation

In the following days months and then years Laura struggles to make sense of this sudden ending alone and filled with questions A journalist she seeks to understand the freefall that is heartbreak and how so many beforeher survived it drawing on forces across time and form and uncovers literary philosophical scientific and psychological accounts of the mysterious alchemy of how we human beings fall in love in the first place and why when it ends some of us take longer to get over it or never do She weaves this background of cultural history with her own bracing story of passionate love and its loss and offers some hope for arrivingchanged broadened gratefulon the other side