# Saint Serotonin

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- Book: [Saint Serotonin](https://www.bookquiver.com/warsan-shire/saint-serotonin) ([Saint Serotonin.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/warsan-shire/saint-serotonin.md))
- Authors: [Warsan Shire](https://www.bookquiver.com/warsan-shire)
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus
- ISBN: 978-17-8474-622-3
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2027-05-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Ya Allah if it / will keep my heart soft please break / my heart everyday. A woman meets a man. She carries, as we all do, the weight of her childhood, the story of her parents, the body she was born into. Endorphins race in her – their love is fated. But what comes next? In Saint Serotonin , the world narrows to a single, ferocious flame of obsession. From the jitters of infatuation to the ecstatic wager of losing oneself in another, Shire paints an uncompromising and complicated portrait of a woman in love: 'The only side effect is / nothing will ever be enough.' These are poems of reckless intoxication, devotion, abasement, tenderness, addiction. Sensual, subversive, perfume-scented yet horror-tinged, Saint Serotonin ensnares us in its intimate derangements. As our narrator fights her way back to herself, who will she be when she emerges? This collection is at once a promise and a warning, an excavation of what it is to love and be loved.