In How Other People Make Love, Thisbe Nissen chronicles the lives
and choices of people questioning the heteronormative institution
of marriage. Not best-served by established conventions and
conventional mores, these people-young, old, gay, straight,
midwestern, coastal-are finding their own paths in learning who
they are and how they want to love and be loved, even when those
paths must be blazed through the unknown. Concerning husbands and
wives, lovers and leavers, Nissen's stories explore our search for
connection and all the ways we undercut it, unwittingly and
intentionally, when we do find it. How do we hold ourselves
together-to function, work, and survive-while endlessly yearning to
be undone, unraveled, and laid bare, however untenable and
excruciating? How Other People Make Love contains nine stories.
"Win's Girl" features a single woman who works at an Iowa
slaughterhouse and uses the insurance money from a car accident to
update the electric system in her dead parents' old house, only to
be unwittingly embroiled with a shady electrician who ultimately
forces her to stand up for herself. In "Home Is Where the Heart
Gives Out and We Arouse the Grass," a young woman flees after
cheating on her husband and winds up at a Nebraska roadside motel
populated by participants in a regional dog show who help her
decide what to do next. In "Unity Brought Them Together," a young
man heads to his favorite New York coffee shop intending to finish
the Christmas cards his vacationing fiancee insists on sending, but
winds up meeting another displaced young midwestern man there and
going home with him instead. All these stories explore the
question, "how do we love?" as well as the answers we find,
discard, follow, banish, and cling to in all our humanness and
desperation. How Other People Make Love asserts that there aren't
right and wrong ways to love; there are only our very complicated
and contradictory human hearts, minds, bodies, and desires-all
searching for something, whether we know what that is or not. These
are stories for anyone who has ever loved or been loved.
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