Losing It: A Novel

"Julia Greenfield is 26 years old, and she’s trying to lose her virginity. (Got yer attention, eh?) I know this sounds like the plot of a teen comedy, but bear with me, because Losing It is one of the cleverer books about sex I’ve ever read. This is partly because Emma Rathbone resists, after the initial setup, making anything about her characters cliche — Julia is a delightful and sharply drawn young woman, and her observations about the world of sex and dating are both insightful and hilarious. Julia — like most of us in our ‘20s — makes some good decisions, and some bad ones, and in the end finds her most central relationship won’t have anything to do with sex at all."