＂The Book of Love and Hate is a most fantastic book--cinematic, a thriller that takes on both the big, global issues of our time as well as the intimate, personal demons that undo us. A book about obsession, it obsessed me. How incredible to come upon such a brainy, expertly written bona fide page-turner. Bravo!＂
--Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave

＂A richly suspenseful story of addiction, love/lust, and family ties--and how all of those things can hold us captive. A spectacular return from one of my favorite writers.＂
--Alison Gaylin, best-selling author of What Remains of Me

＂The Book of Love and Hate is a fever dream of a novel, achingly sexy and at times startlingly funny. Lauren Sanders has written a stunning genre-defying tale of sex, longing, ghosts, and spies. Every page teems with her gleaming sentences and deliciously dark wit. The ending still haunts me.＂
--J.T. Rogers, author of Oslo

Jennifer Baron is a spectacularly failed speed skater trying to stay sober a couple of decades after her Olympic downfall. She is running her father’s billion-dollar foundation--the clean side of his business--when her father mysteriously disappears, perhaps running from the FBI, perhaps six feet under. Soon Jen is invited to a conference in Tel Aviv which turns into a clandestine meeting with her father and his lover Gila Zyskun, a former Israeli army pilot turned corporate spy.

Jen immediately falls for Gila, they make love, and Jen agrees to move ＂information＂ out of Israel for her father, though she knows this can’t be legal. A few months later, when the FBI claims her father’s been blown up in a Jerusalem hotel, Jen returns to Tel Aviv, beginning a needle-in-haystack search for her father, dead or alive, and for his/her lover.

Jen’s past and present come to a head as American and Israeli law-enforcement agents close in, pressuring her to turn on Gila and/or her father, and Jen is forced to choose whether her life should be governed by love, hate, or the often more traumatic crime of indifference.