Published: July 03, 2011
Words: 100,852 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465797087

Short description

Jordan Lockhart is 30, oversexed, underemployed, and screwed up. When her boyfriend falls for his bisexual neighbor, Jordan decides to give up on love once and for all. Then, she meets Louis. Barely 20, sweetly naive and impossibly gorgeous, Louis is a gift from the gods. When he announces his intention to move to the Alaskan wilderness, Jordan hatches a desperate, hilarious plan to make him stay.

Extended description

Starving artist Jordan Lockhart is 30 years old, underemployed, oversexed, and screwed up. She’s coming off a disastrous streak of drunken one- night stands and dead-end relationships when she rekindles a romance with ex-boyfriend Mark Chaplin, “the one that got away.” Against her better judgment, Jordan soon finds herself falling once again for Mark, a quirky, charming, pot-smoking massage therapist. The sex is great, their chemistry is red-hot, and just when it seems that things may actually work out this time around, Jordan discovers that Mark has also fallen in love....with his cute bisexual neighbor.

Heartbroken, Jordan seeks solace in boozing it up with her motley crew of friends: Dean, an overweight, lovelorn librarian, Genna, a banker on a perpetual search for Mr. Right, and Iris, a single mother who views parenthood as somewhere between a part-time job and a hobby. Jordan bitterly swears off men and relationships to focus on her art and her budding alcoholism. Then, .. (Read more) Starving artist Jordan Lockhart is 30 years old, underemployed, oversexed, and screwed up. She’s coming off a disastrous streak of drunken one- night stands and dead-end relationships when she rekindles a romance with ex-boyfriend Mark Chaplin, “the one that got away.” Against her better judgment, Jordan soon finds herself falling once again for Mark, a quirky, charming, pot-smoking massage therapist. The sex is great, their chemistry is red-hot, and just when it seems that things may actually work out this time around, Jordan discovers that Mark has also fallen in love....with his cute bisexual neighbor.

Heartbroken, Jordan seeks solace in boozing it up with her motley crew of friends: Dean, an overweight, lovelorn librarian, Genna, a banker on a perpetual search for Mr. Right, and Iris, a single mother who views parenthood as somewhere between a part-time job and a hobby. Jordan bitterly swears off men and relationships to focus on her art and her budding alcoholism. Then, she meets Louis.

Louis Avery is a twenty-year-old painter and a devout Catholic with movie-star looks and “an ass like Brad Pitt.” Jordan projects every romantic ideal she has ever harbored onto Louis, who enjoys Jordan’s affections but strives to remain chaste, work on his paintings, and ultimately escape to the wilds of Alaska to live “the natural life.” First sweetly, then desperately, Jordan tries to dissuade Louis from moving to Alaska. She fails, Louis leaves, and Jordan screws her courage to the mast and decides to go for broke to win back the man she loves...even if it means doing something really stupid in the process.

"Thanks, That Was Fun" is a humorous look at modern love and the lengths some people go to in order to get and keep it. The witty dialogue, sharply drawn characters and unconventional ending make it a satisfying read for anyone who is single, heartbroken, in love, or in between.
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Tags

midwest, satire, quirky, men and women, artists, sex farce, comedy drama, indianapolis, bisexual women

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Review by: Angela Weldon on Sep. 24, 2011 :
Reading Thanks, That Was Fun, I felt like I was watching a movie or gossiping with my closest girlfriends over a bottomless glass of wine. The characters are well developed and the plot oddly suspenseful. I read it in two sittings, mesmerized by Nash’s ability to illustrate a very complicated and emotional time in this young woman’s life, without pontification and with plenty of humor. And, it's the best sex I've ever read.
(reviewed long after purchase)

Review by: Doug Toft on July 10, 2011 :
I wish I’d had this book as a teenager, when womens’ sexual response was a dark, moist, distant mystery to me. The sex scenes in this book (there are plenty) took me straight into a female, heterosexual psyche and reported moment-by-moment responses. This was more instructive than anything presented during my 8th grade “sex-ed” class.

But there’s much more going on here. Just beneath the booze, joints, and genital juices is an inquiry into the nature of enlightenment. And it starts where we all begin—with figuring out how to make it through the night.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

Review by: John Brooks on July 10, 2011 :
A exploration of values and modern relationships that is at time funny at others sad and able to summon up that empty feeling may of us have at one time or another experienced.
Well worth a read.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

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