Love: The Art of Cherishing the World (paperback)

In this witty, sensual, and earnest stylized political creative nonfiction novel, Jenny Forrester navigates two worlds: her grounded life in the Colorado Rockies and her chaotic digital existence at "The Fireside," an internet realm teeming with symbolic characters and revolutionary fantasies. Blue Check Mark, Best White People, The One True Activist, and the Army of Surveillance Capitalists clash under the manipulations of the Villainous and Cunning Story Wrapper and her accomplice, The Heckler, as digital tension erupts into war. Disillusioned, Forrester retreats to The Devil’s Bar. Offline, she begins again, questioning how a self—or any identity—can be rebuilt from ruin. Guided by a Wise Friend’s prophecy—“Your life is going to be so beautiful”—she meets Moose Men, Tiny Mighty, and others in a soulful, surreal journey through solitude, unconventional connections, and the tender ache of hope. Love: The Art of Cherishing the World is a journey through real intimacy that honors separateness and toward the wisdom that sustaining connection needn’t be human, nor traditional, to be profoundly alive.