This Is a Love Story: 'What a gift' Ann Napolitano, author of Hello, Beautiful

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'Lyrical, graceful - Jessica Soffer has captured the glittering magic of New York City' Jenny Jackson, NYT-bestselling author of Pineapple StreetAbe and Jane have been together for fifty years: as two among the thousands of starry-eyed young lovers in Central Park, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as an artist and a writer whose careers were taking flight. Now, Jane is seriously unwell, and together she and Abe look back on their marriage - on the parts they cherished, and those they didn't: Abe's early betrayal; and the trials of raising their son Max, who, now grown, still believes his mother chose art over parenthood.A homage to New York, to loss, heartbreak and love that endures despite or perhaps because of what life throws at us, This Is a Love Story brings these layered voices together in a chorus as complex, radiant and captivating as the city itself.

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'Delicate and beautiful ... Every once in a while, I read a novel and think, "What a gift." This is one of those books' - Ann Napolitano, NYT-bestselling author of Hello Beautiful

'An iridescent, kaleidoscopic novel... A beautiful book of seasons, marking the cycles of a city, a family, the creative process, and a singular life' - Nathan Englander

'With her lyrical, graceful novel, Jessica Soffer has captured the glittering magic of New York City' - Jenny Jackson, NYT-bestselling author of Pineapple Street

'A revelation - the kind of novel to read in one sitting. It performs the magic trick of being a highly specific story that feels universal and timeless. You'll find that your worldview has been altered' - Liz Moore, bestselling author of Long Bright River

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Author Bio

Jessica Soffer was born and raised in New York City and earned her MFA in Fiction at Hunter College. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Saveur, Wall Street Journal and Vogue, and she is the author of the novel Tomorrow There Will be Apricots.