Is true love possible? Readers are turning to this 1990s novel for answers
New York Times: Novel a hit among younger readers thinking about romantic relationships.
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New York Times: Novel a hit among younger readers thinking about romantic relationships.
Norman Rush’s “Mating” has achieved handshake status among younger readers thinking seriously about romantic relationships.
“Mating,” published in 1991, usually finds its evangelists by word-of-mouth. For some, its plot points can be a tough sell: An unnamed graduate student in Botswana pursues an American anthropologist, Nelson Denoon, who is trying to form a matriarchal society in a desert village.
Katherine Champagne had never heard of Mating, the award-winning novel by Norman Rush, until one afternoon in 2020, when she popped into a