Loved One

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"[Loved One] is special...full of wildly astute, delectably thorny questions about love and loss and possession." --Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle, via Instagram

A warm, witty, and wise novel about a woman who goes looking for answers after her first love turned best friend dies unexpectedly, and winds up finding herself

When her first love and friend of more than a decade, Gabe, dies suddenly at twenty-nine, thirty-year-old Julia is launched onto an intercontinental quest to recover his lost possessions. Her journey takes her from Los Angeles to London to Barcelona, and into the murky realm of the past, a kaleidoscope that seems to offer more questions than answers about who Gabe really was, and who they were toeach other.

It also sets Julia on a collision course with the last woman he loved,an effortlessly beautiful and impossibly cool restaurateur named Elizabeth, who insists on withholding Gabes beloved guitarone of the departed indie rock musicians dearest belongingsfor reasons Julia cant understand. Both women, it turns out, have something to hide. Are Julia and Elizabeth friends, are they competitors, or are they bound by something deeper than their love of the same man

An engrossing, transformative journey and a tender coming-of-age story with a complex and powerful love at its heart, Loved One is poised to become an instant classic. Written with crackling wit and deep compassion, it asks profound, resonant questions about life, love, and loss. What happens when we admit that the deepest feelings never die And just how little do we know about loveif it is, at the end of the day, all we really have Full ofrevelations and emotional twists that keep the pages turning, Loved One is an unforgettable novel that introduces Aisha Muharrar as a novelist deeply attuned to the sense of self and of home we find in our closest relationships.

Author Bio

Aisha Muharrar is thethree-time Emmy-nominated writer and coexecutive producer of the hit shows Hacks (HBO), The Good Place (NBC), and Parks and Recreation (NBC), all of which have won her recognition in the category of Outstanding Comedy Series. Raised on Long Island, Aisha got her BA at Harvard, where she was vice president of The Harvard Lampoon. Loved One is her first novel.