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This Is a Love Story: A Read with Jenna Pick

by Jessica Soffer

A marriage measured in years and conversations

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Awards & Recognition

  • Bestseller

    Instant New York Times Bestseller

  • Book club selection

    Read with Jenna Book Club Pick

    Selected as a Read with Jenna book club pick.

  • Critical praise

    Praise from Jenna Bush Hager on TODAY

    Jenna Bush Hager praised the book on TODAY, calling it an epic love story.

AlbakiReads Editorial

A marriage measured in years and conversations

Central Park provides the recurring setting for Abe and Jane’s fifty-year relationship, serving both as a place to seek distance and as a backdrop to the moments that shape their life together. As Jane is dying, Abe recounts their courtship, marriage, and creative lives, alongside perspectives and conflicts that complicate their shared story: a student seeking love and their son Max’s belief that art came before parenthood. The novel brings love, artistic ambition, family tension, and loss into the same account, with New York City as an enduring presence.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in literary fiction about long marriages and family relationships.
  • Readers drawn to stories that connect romantic love with artistic ambition and its sacrifices.
  • Readers interested in New York City as a setting and in themes of love, memory, and loss.

Themes

Enduring love and marriageArt and sacrificeParenthood and family conflictMemory and lossNew York City

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Book overview

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY

"This may be the most epic love story I've ever, ever read."--Jenna Bush Hager on TODAY

An intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the sacrifices we make for both.


For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park. They came alone to get away from each other and together for important discussions and pivotal life moments. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now.

Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew--their courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives--and the parts they didn't always want to know--the determined young student of Abe's looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood, and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs.

An homage to New York City, to romance, and even to loss, This Is a Love Story tenderly and suspensefully captures deep truths about life and marriage in radiant prose. It is about love that endures despite what life throws at us, or perhaps even because of it.
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