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The Good Parts

by Evann Normandin

A love story shaped by memory and loss

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  • Bestseller

    Instant USA Today Bestseller

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    Praise from Jodi Picoult

    Jodi Picoult directly praises The Good Parts, describing her response to the story, characters, and themes.

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A love story shaped by memory and loss

Rose’s memory-erasing treatment leaves her beginning again in Edinburgh, while Landon approaches her as a stranger carrying the history they shared. Alternating between Landon’s present and Rose’s past, the novel connects their renewed friendship with the relationship, marriage, and heartbreak Rose can no longer recall. Her emerging symptoms complicate the premise, bringing questions of identity and the costs of remembering into the story. Magical realism frames a romance concerned with how a shared past shapes who people become—and what remains when that past is obscured.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in romance built around a second chance at love.
  • For readers who enjoy stories involving memory loss and changing identity.
  • For readers who like novels told across alternating timelines.

Themes

Memory and identityLove and second chancesGrief and heartbreakThe past’s influence on the present

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Book overview

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER

An epic, unforgettable love story about a woman who takes a memory-erasing pill and the man she once loved who returns as a stranger, hoping to make her fall for him all over again--for fans of One Day and In Five Years.

"I loved The Good Parts. Loved the way I knew something life-altering was coming--yet it kept me guessing. Loved the characters, who burrowed into my dreams at night. And most of all, loved the reminder that what breaks us and puts us back together with all our hairline cracks is what makes us human." --Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author

She erased their past. He's rewriting their future.

When Landon receives a letter from Rose--the woman he once planned forever with--he learns their love story is over. She's undergone a radical memory-erasing treatment, leaving behind her grief, her past... and him. But Landon can't bear to lose the love of his life. If she fell for him once, couldn't she fall for him again?

Now living in Edinburgh, Rose's world is a blank canvas, and she's dating someone new. When Landon reenters her life as a stranger, they become fast friends, their lives entwining once more. But what Rose doesn't know is that this new friend carries the weight of everything they once shared: their firsts, their marriage, and the heartbreak they barely survived. And when she starts exhibiting strange symptoms, it becomes clear their history isn't gone--it's just buried. And remembering could come at a devastating cost.

Told in alternating timelines--his from the present, hers from the past--The Good Parts is an achingly poignant story about the people we become across a lifetime, and the beauty of finding our way with what remains.
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