A Bachelor Tries to Understand Love

I saw this article about an American guy who falls in love with a woman from Saipan (haha…no comments, please ), tries to make the relationship work, and when it doesn’t, writes a book about Americans and how love either fails or succeeds.  The book is called, “Us: Americans Talk About Love,” and it’s a collection of first person accounts by real people who either loved or couldn’t find love.  According to the article:

The book includes tales of obsession and confusion (from a 17-year-old girl in San Antonio, Tex., who can’t get over an ex-boyfriend and a drug-addled 30-year-old living with his mother in Arizona while following his ex on Facebook); finding bliss (as a 44-year-old lesbian eventually did in Minneapolis, after more than a decade of marriage to a born-again Christian); and acceptance (from a 76-year-old widower in Manhattan who says he dated more than 300 women after his wife died, without ever finding anyone to take her place).

It’s not a bad thing, but does anyone else find it curious that Asian Americans in the blogosphere often talk about Pick Up, or Flirting, or the IR Disparity, but few people talk about love?  Jamie Ford’s “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” was the first Asian American romance novel that I know of, and yet few people talk about the Asian romantic aspect of it.  I would love to see an Asian American version of this book.  Yes, the stories might be hard to come by, but I’m sure they’re out there.