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Review Quotes:
"This is a firecracker of a novel--funny, smart, sexy, and alive with a narrator you can't help but fall for. I loved it." - Antonia Angress, author of
Sirens & Muses
Review Quotes:
"You know how people sometimes say Sally Rooney is writing what will be the first millennial classics? I think Haili Blassingame wrote a Gen Z/millennial cusp classic. I haven't been this excited by a book in ages. Incisive, raw, and relentlessly funny, Blassingame's superb debut cements her as an electric voice to watch and a sharp portraitist of Gen Z desire.
They All Fall in Love in the End thrums with tactile, evocative prose, sexual tension, and smart social commentary. I laughed out loud so many times--I absolutely loved it." -- Katie Naymon, author of
You Between the Lines
Biographical Note:
Haili Blassingame is a producer for the NPR program
1A. She has written for publications like
The New Republic and
The New York Times, in which she published the viral "My Choice Isn't Marriage or Loneliness" for "Modern Love". She was one of twelve essayists selected to write a follow-up piece for the column's 20th anniversary in October 2024. She's also been a guest on the
Modern Love podcast, NPR's
Life Kit, and NPR's
1A. She previously worked on NPR's
Code Switch and
Weekend Edition. She is pursuing an MFA in creative writing from American University. She lives in Washington, DC.
Review Quotes:
"This is relationships plus mess... the perfect book for summer." -- MJ Franklin,
New York Times
Review Quotes:
"Blassingame's novel is pure joy. She brings the hijinks of a messy triangle that we all know and love to life, and twists expectations to hilarious results. So often, funny doesn't land on the page. Blassingame understands comedy." --
Debutiful
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Romantic chaos reigns in Blassingame's snappy debut novel. Cat is a D.C.-based M.F.A. student who is in an open relationship with her boyfriend, Jay. Jay's best friend, Tristan, hates Cat, but neither Tristan nor Cat can deny the spark between them. That's made more complicated because Tristan already has a girlfriend ... whom Cat also feels a connection with. Did we mention chaos?" --
The New York Times
Review Quotes:
"The slow-burn love square in
They All Fall in Love at the End crackles into a roaring, uncontrollable fire as four characters face the question of how to thrive in the bleak landscape of contemporary dating... an achievement." --
BookPage
Review Quotes:
"Gorgeously written, funny and sad...I loved it!"
-- #1
New York Times Bestselling Author Jennifer Weiner.
Review Quotes:
"Ultimately, what Cat wishes, more than anything, is to not lose touch with the groping, wanting, unruly animal that is herself. In Blassingame's hands, this pursuit is probing and unpredictable.
Her novel is a mournful love song for anyone afraid of being lost in translation." -- NYTBR
Review Quotes:
"As a satirist and fresh American voice, Blassingame is a talent to watch." --Dawnie Walton, author of The Final Revival of Opal and Nev
Publisher Marketing:
Cat St. Clair is ready for her messy love triangle era now that she's in an open relationship. But she didn
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t foresee a forbidden love triangle with the only two people who are off-limits: her boyfriend's best friend and his girlfriend. Being a twenty-something writer who lives for plot, she falls for them anyway, with deliciously disastrous consequences, in this electric literary debut for fans of Xochitl Gonzalez, Coco Mellors, Lily King, and Raven Leilani.
It's the fall of 2024, and twenty-four-year-old Cat isn't asking for too much: all she wants is three boyfriends, to write her little novels, and to survive another chaotic presidential election. She's in an open relationship with her college sweetheart Jay, but nonmonogamy isn't just a hot trend she's trying. It's her sliver of freedom in a world eager to wrestle it from her for being a Black woman going after what she wants with reckless abandon.
While political tensions roil the campus where Cat is slowly earning her creative writing degree, she finds herself drawn to Jay's best friend, Tristan, who's smart, super hot, and...in a monogamous relationship. And then she meets Tristan's girlfriend, Nia, a captivating art student with her own gravitational pull.
Friends and family urge her to just be happy with Jay, but Cat is determined to have it all--or blow up her life trying. As she falls for all the wrong people, racking up lies, betrayals, and terrible drafts of her novel, she tries to write her way to a happy ending. But in art, politics, and love, true liberation may take more than rewriting the old scripts. It may mean inventing something entirely new.
Review Citations:
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Booklist 04/28/2026 (EAN 9781668204122, Hardcover)
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Publishers Weekly 04/27/2026 (EAN 9781668204122, Hardcover)
Contributor Bio:Blassingame, Haili
Haili Blassingame is a producer for the NPR program
1A. She has written for publications like
The New Republic and
The New York Times, in which she published the viral "My Choice Isn't Marriage or Loneliness" for "Modern Love". She was one of twelve essayists selected to write a follow-up piece for the column's 20th anniversary in October 2024. She's also been a guest on the
Modern Love podcast, NPR's
Life Kit, and NPR's
1A. She previously worked on NPR's
Code Switch and
Weekend Edition. She is pursuing an MFA in creative writing from American University. She lives in Washington, DC.
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