From the “hilarious, heartbreaking, and insightful” (The Miami Herald) bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a sweeping, modern day fairy tale about first romance and lasting love.
Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are eight years old when they meet late one night in an ER waiting room. Born with a congenital heart defect, Rachel is a veteran of hospitals, and she’s intrigued by the boy who shows up all alone with a broken arm. He tells her his name. She tells him a story. After Andy’s taken back to the emergency room and Rachel’s sent back to her bed, they think they’ll never see each other again.
Rachel, the beloved, popular, and protected daughter of two doting parents, grows up wanting for nothing in a fancy Florida suburb. Andy grows up poor in Philadelphia with a single mom and a rare talent that will let him become one of the best runners of his generation.
Over the course of three decades, through high school and college, marriages and divorces, from the pinnacles of victory and the heartbreak of defeat, Andy and Rachel will find each other again and again, until they are finally given a chance to decide whether love can surmount difference and distance and if they’ve been running toward each other all along.
With honesty, wit, and clear-eyed observations about men and women, love and fate, and the truth about happy endings, Jennifer Weiner delivers two of her most memorable characters, and a love story you’ll never forget.
Weiner’s Best Book Yet! Wow. Where do I even begin with the love I have for this book? The story of Rachel and Andy will definitely be something to come back to again. Their story starts out when they are young and both in the hospital for different reasons. That chance meeting leaves a lasting impression on both of them. They are so different for so many reasons (race, religion, location and financial backgrounds) and at the same time couldn’t have been more perfect for each other. They both understand what it…
Totally Gave Me All the Feels! This was a book for me that had me feeling all sorts of feels. I was happy, I was sad, I swooned, I cried, I had icky feelings. Literally it put me through it all. And for that I truly enjoyed it.
Pain Filled Lives and I’m Not Sure the Conclusion Was Worth the Trip I hate to do this as I usually love anything by this author, but this book just left me annoyed for some reason. To me it was just meh. It had its moments, please don’t get me wrong. The premise was fairly unique to me (although a little stale for a lot of the general public), the character’s are well drawn and multi-layered but for me the idea of love at first sight at eight year’s old, is a difficult idea for me to swallow.