Hello, Limerence: A Novel by Momo Yamaguchi

Description

Mika is about to turn twenty-five, and things aren’t exactly going according to plan. She has a soul-sucking office job, a terminal case of virginity, and a growing collection of unwanted advances from coworkers and subway commuters. Her romantic prospects aren’t much better, thanks to a parade of love-bombing fuckboys who seem determined to make her life even more complicated.

Fortunately, Mika has an imagination. Unfortunately, hers tends toward the comically violent, intensely horny, and wildly unfiltered.

With encouragement from her certified “Hot Girl” best friend Nana, Mika sets out to change her romantic fortunes. She loses half her virginity to Tyler, a Japanese-American commitment-phobe, while the other half is claimed by a man whose drawer of red flags should probably have been considered a warning. Along the way, Mika finds herself fantasizing about women, leaving her both thoroughly titillated and deeply confused.

Soon she’s caught in a love(less) triangle while an unsettling outbreak, apparently connected to the unhygienic bathroom practices of white male Westerners, sends Tokyo into quarantine. As Mika’s life becomes increasingly absurd, a reunion with an estranged friend offers another possible escape route.

But is Mika finally changing her life, or has she simply fallen into another case of limerence?

Scathingly funny, profane, sexually frank, and unexpectedly heartfelt, Hello, Limerence is a debut about the humiliations and small triumphs of desire. For anyone who has ever confused fantasy with possibility, obsession with romance, or a terrible decision with character development, Mika’s journey is an entertainingly chaotic ride.

Book Details

Author: Momo Yamaguchi
Title: Hello, Limerence: A Novel
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: August 18, 2026
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
ISBN-10: 0063468263
ISBN-13: 9780063468269
Language: English