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Fade Into You: Love in the Time of Mixtapes
Paperback
Publisher: Over the Bridge Press
Published: Sep 19 2025
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before dating apps, before texting, before sliding into DMs... there were mixtapes.
Portland, 1995. Claire Donovan is twenty-seven, chronically single, and writing music reviews for peanuts. When a power outage at a midnight movie screening throws her together with Ethan-a bike messenger with poetry tattooed on his knuckles-she discovers that analog romance hits different. No ghosting when you only have a landline. No dick pics on a beeper. Just agonizing waits by the phone and carefully crafted mixtapes.
But when Claire's offered her dream job in Seattle (actual money! name-brand cereal!) and Ethan's supermodel ex wants him back, their week-old relationship faces very '90s problems. How do you choose between love and ambition when you can't even Google your boyfriend?
With help from her unhinged roommate Maya (who believes every problem can be solved with Zima and Bikini Kill), Claire must decide: Take the money and run? Or stay for a man who thinks Pavement is good but makes her feel like track four on the perfect mixtape-where things get real?
A hilarious, heartfelt journey back to when I'll call you was a promise, not a lie. Perfect for fans of High Fidelity and anyone who's ever spent three hours making a mixtape just to seem casually interesting.
Warning: Contains excessive flannel, terrible poetry that rhymes Claire with despair, and enough '90s nostalgia to make you dig out your old Discman.
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