Lauren's first novel is a sweet, honest account of the life and loves of 20-something Joel Miller. It's a rainy Saturday, and Miller has just been directed to walk the 12 blocks to the independent drug store in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to buy his girlfriend a pregnancy test. The rest of the novel takes place as Miller waits outside the bathroom door for Lisa to reveal the results, all the while pondering past loves and future concerns.

Critics on Reproduction is the Flaw of Love

Grodstein's book brilliantly charts the coming of age of Joel Miller, a standard-issue, 29-year-old Brooklynite. Grodstein's observations are all her own, and they're easily worth the price of admission.
- New York Post

Funny, poignant...terrifically comic.
- Time Out New York

If you've been wishing you could get into your man's head during those tense, relationship-testing moments - here's your chance.
- Elle

The work of a gifted young author.
- Fort Worth Star Telegram

An insightful study of our search for meaningful connections.
- Booklist

Sweet, honest...compulsively readable.
- Publisher's Weekly

This amazing debut is by turns truly funny, sad and sexy. At once literary and unputdownable, Reproduction demands attention and deserves to be read.
- Ink Magazine

Grodstein makes a good case that reproduction is not the flaw of love: We are.
- Baltimore City Paper

This quietly compelling novel is a complex slice of fiction."
- An Amazon Breakout Book *** A Borders Original Voices Selection

Writers on Reproduction is the Flaw of Love

Lauren Grodstein is a master of the one liner and this book is full of great ones. Funny, smart, and startlingly perceptive, Reproduction is the Flaw of Love is a fabulous read, and Joel Miller is one of the most endearing characters I've met in recent fiction. .
- Jessica Shattuck, author of The Hazards of Good Breeding

Reproduction is the Flaw of Love is far more than a 'relationship' novel. Joel Miller is an utterly believable young man, and the web of family and friends around him is filled with tenderness and human imperfection...This is a wonderful novel."
- Max Ludington, author of Tiger in a Trance