All Things Sane

All Things Sane is a story of love gone wrong. When our narrator meets a guy with a quick wit, an indomitable spirit, and good cologne, she finds herself falling hard for him. But there's a problem....he has no interest in the typical rules of love. Suffused with cigarette smoke, joy rides, prairie hikes, and late-night whispers, this story details one young woman's struggle to make sense of a relationship that follows no traditional structures. In the grip of all-consuming hunger, Wolff finds herself shackled by love. Her feelings for this boy test the limits of her will and sanity. There's nothing to do but wait, she concludes. Wait for him to change. Wait for the power of love to put everything right.

All Things Sane is an intimate confessional, a collection of secrets and pent-up words. Deceptively easy to read, these sparse lines are smart, beautiful, and rich in meaning. They are meditations on connection, lust, loneliness, the beauty of nature, and the relationship between men and women. What should you do when the person you love doesn't love you back? When you crave someone like a drug? When the most consistent emotion you feel is a sinking in the gut? In this brutally honest chronicle, Wolff forces herself to look upon every aspect of her story, however painful. She struggles to determine what love is, how to make meaning in the world, and what to do with her own stubborn heart. A tale of intimacy, pain, and transformation, All Things Sane reminds us that the freedom we seek lies within ourselves.