In a world where landowners have control and freedom is rare, He and She decide to leave their respective towns to escape the horrors they have encountered. After meeting on a bus, they find out they are heading to the same destination—a town where they will deeply fall in love. However, are they capable of love after surviving loss? Can they put behind their painful memories?

What a lovely story about love, friendship, trauma and resilience! The writing in this book often feels like a melody and definitely reminded me of Beloved by Toni Morrison. The story isn't linear, but full of important memories and beautiful writing. The connection between the characters and nature is also really well done. Thank you to the author, the publisher and Net Galley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Beautiful. I will return to this, but the way the story is told is enchanting. This is meant to be read and re-read, and I very much look forward to re-reading this.