Praise for The Women I Love "The Women I Love is an intricate, elegant, unstinting novel that trains its acute, hyperaware attention on complexities of gender and class. Francesco Pacifico has written a male confessional like no other, in which the narrator-Marcello, who thinks of himself as a great lover of women-gives us a catalog of the women who have shaped him, much like Fellini does in 8½. But Pacifico's Marcello surprises us with his honesty and his exacting self-critique. He dissects the classic entirled male, moving from condescension to humility, from objectification to compassion." —Dana Spiotta, author of Wayward "Italy's most thought-provoking writer tackles the horror that is human relationships with style, humor, and verve." —Gary Shteyngart, author of Lake Success "Razor-sharp and mordantly funny, Francesco Pacifico's savage and startlingly, unsettlingly tender new novel is a masterful ode to the different forms of love, attachment, and obligation that hold us and, occasionally, hold us back." -Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun