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Animal Instinct

by Amy Shearn
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The world has stopped. But Rachel is just getting started…
It’s spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside. But her newly awakened sexual desire and lust for a new life refuse to be contained. Leaning on her best friend Lulu to show her the ropes, Rachel dips a toe in the online dating world, leading to park dates with younger men, flirtations with beautiful women, and actual, in-person sex. None of them, individually, are perfect . . . hence her rotation.
But what if one person could perfectly cater to all her emotional needs? 
Driven by this possibility, Rachel creates Frankie, the AI chatbot she programs with all the good parts of dating in middle age . . . and some of the bad. But as Rachel plays with her fantasy to her heart’s content, she begins to realize she can’t reprogram her ex-husband, her children, her friends, or the roster of paramours that’s grown unwieldy. Perhaps real life has more in store for Rachel than she could ever program for herself.

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    March 18, 2025

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      • ISBN: 9780593718353

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      • ISBN: 9780593718353
      • File size: 1829 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      February 1, 2025
      Could the perfect person be a bot? Mom-of-three Rachel, who works in tech, is newly dating after getting divorced just before the pandemic hit. In the strange days of masking and outdoor dining, Rachel's friend sets her up on dating apps looking for both men and women, and she meets people they nickname the Rocker, Kinky Playwright, and Too-Many-Cats Guy. While Rachel enjoys having a whole crew just a text away to meet her needs--a crew so large she eventually needs a spreadsheet to keep track--she wonders if she could program a chatbot to connect with romantically, thus creating one perfect person. Although her experiment takes a few wrong turns as she feeds the bot the best parts of everyone in her life, it gets better and better, until it feels like the bot may be all she needs. Shearn's (The Mermaid of Brooklyn, 2013) inventive novel offers snappy dialogue that feels like eavesdropping on close friends, captures the scary early-pandemic days of isolation and digital connection, and ultimately celebrates the unpredictability of love.

      COPYRIGHT(2025) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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