Swipe Right: A Millennial Love Story

by Danica Barnett

Dating as a Millennial isn’t easy. There are a variety of phone apps promising you can swipe right on your soul mate or a potential hookup, but none of them seem to offer a manual for how to meet your next catch.
A candid, witty poetry memoir told in 101 haiku about one girl’s struggle with dating in a world centered on finding love online and hookup culture.

9 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 18, 2016

Reviews

[Rylea Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Swipe Right is a collection of haikus about feminism, relationships, and love in the millennial milieu. Barnett captures in the fewest possible words what it’s like to be single, dating, or sort-of-dating as a woman in the technological age. Her words echo the shared experience of women who have dated online and all those who have experienced the incongruous expectations that transcend the experience of male-female relationships.

The poetic form itself is a social commentary on the nature of millennial dating. Each haiku is a juxtaposition of the darker meaning beneath the short stanzas. Hidden in these quirky, breezy stanzas, there is a complexity underlying the modern millennial romance and the trouble with dating. This forms a parallel to the millennial dating plight.

Nominally, millennials enjoy casual dating, no-strings-attached sex that is designed to be brief, random, and fun. But the other side of the modern dating scene is rarely so simple. Barnett captures the complex underpinnings of the casual, sometimes messy, and always multi-layered relationships that are rarely as clear cut as they were intended.

[Sasha Elise · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short but good

I felt this. It spoke to my heart and a few of my other issues. I may read it again