“Love is an act of will, love is a verb, it’s something we essentially get up to every day to choose to do for ourselves in the world,” she says.
“We ache for love, but love eludes us,” she opens in the preface to the text, which has become a sensation on social media.
Faye refers to her own experience as a transgender woman and believes that one of the biggest reasons love is difficult to find is because we live in a “techno-capitalist dystopia”.
“Love is, after all, something you only get better at giving and a little better at losing every time you actually try to do it.
‘Love is a risky business, and it hurts,’ says writer Shon Faye.