A review by erinnleah
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill

3.0

Just finished The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill, a Canadian author. This book is set in Montreal during the great depression and is filled with the world's most beautiful quotes and the world's most perverse and bittersweet moments. This wouldn't be a book for everyone: it is riddled with ideas about love and melancholy and desire and all the terrible things that go along with it ( rape and prostitution and drug abuse and abject poverty) But it is also about men and women's...especially women's... creativity and agency and fight to be free. I could have picked out a billion quotes because literally, every line was a line of poetry. Highly recommend!