Man, this is a rough one. This is a contemporary love story (though I wouldn’t call it a romance novel, despite sharing of the qualities of one), that functions in three distinct sections: her, him, them. It’s the novel of two people from very traumatic and rough childhoods meeting as adults. And because we meet them as adults, we are brought into their story as their courtship and relationship unfolds — this is the clearly familiar space. But because we spend a good long section […]