The Geometry of Love

Why is it easier for a woman to be a muse than to have one? Are security and inspiration mutually exclusive? Can one be fully creative—in art or life—without the inspiration of erotic love? These are the questions asked in THE GEOMETRY OF LOVE, a novel set in New York in the 1980s, then fast-forwarding to Northern California 20 years later.

Julia, an aspiring poet, is living with her British boyfriend Ben, a restrained professor at Princeton, when she is thrown off-balance by a chance meeting in Manhattan with Michael, a long-ago friend. A complex and compelling composer, Michael was once a catalyzing muse for her, but now returns as a destabilizing influence.

Julia longs to become involved with Michael, but feels enormous guilt at the thought of betraying Ben and giving up the security of that relationship. When Michael signals he is too wounded to make a commitment, Julia turns her triangular situation into a square by setting him up with a cousin. In the process she discovers, as Pascal once said, that “the heart has its reasons which reason does not know.” This deeply psychological tale explores the surprising ways we make romantic choices.

Author: Jessica Levine

Publication Date: April 8, 2014

Categories: Fiction, Spring 2014, Women’s Fiction

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“An engaging piece of cultural and religious history . . . [and] a compelling introduction to Christianity.”
–The Washington Post Book World

“Reading the church building itself as a text, [Visser] renders its language of marble and mosaic into a splendid narrative . . .”
–The New Yorker

“This is a book of epiphanies . . . transforming our experience not only of this particular church but of all churches.”
-Commonweal

“A marvelous window into the ways a house of worship can give concrete shape to spiritual experience.”
–Entertainment Weekly

About the Author

Jessica Levine is the author of The Geometry of Love (She Writes Press, 2014), a top-ten women’s fiction title in the American Library Association’s Booklist in 2015, and Nothing Forgotten (She Writes Press, 2018), which won the Next Generation Indie Book Award. The prequel to these two novels, Three Cousins, is forthcoming from She Writes Press in April of 2025. She is also the author of Delicate Pursuit: Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton (Routledge, 2002). Her essays, short stories, and poetry have appeared in many publications including The Southern Review and The Huffington Post. She has translated several books from French and Italian into English.

Jessica holds a PhD in English literature from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was a Mellon Fellow. She was born in New York City and now lives in Northern California. You can find her at www.jessicalevine.com. Jessica has been a practicing hypnotherapist since 2005. You can learn about her work at www.levinehypnotherapy.com.