Summary

Lena’s worst email ever was a series of apologies (with footnotes) that she wrote to boyfriends, unnamed in this book. In one message, she wrote that the last six times they spoke, she talked followed by his long silences. She wrote that she liked him a lot, not in a scary obsessive way but was willing to go out of her way to make him a part of her life. Lena said it would be poetic justice if he didn’t answer her email. She apologized for the email not being funny.

Lena had always been attracted to jerks. At 25, she was involved with a nice guy and considered herself in “jerk recovery.” Lena’s father proved the conventional wisdom that if a girl had a good father, she’d choose a good man. She chose jerks. Her father...