Who Do You Love
A Novel
by Jennifer Weiner
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Pub Date Aug 11 2015 | Archive Date Jul 31 2018
Description
Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are just eight years old when they meet 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 alone with a broken arm. He tells her his name. She tells him a story. After Andy’s taken back to a doctor and Rachel’s sent back to her bed, they think they’ll never see each other again.
Rachel grows up in an affluent Florida suburb, the popular and protected daughter of two doting parents. Andy grows up poor in Philadelphia with a single mom and a rare talent for running.
Yet, over the next three decades, Andy and Rachel will meet again and again—linked by chance, history, and the memory of the first time they met, a night that changed the course of both of their lives.
A sweeping, warmhearted, and intimate tale, Who Do You Love is an extraordinary novel about the passage of time, the way people change and change each other, and how the measure of a life is who you love.
A Note From the Publisher
Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are just 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 alone with a broken arm. He tells her his name. She tells him a story. After Andy’s taken back to a doctor and Rachel’s sent back to her bed, they think they’ll never see each other again.
Rachel grows up in an affluent Florida suburb, the popular and protected daughter of two doting parents. Andy grows up poor in Philadelphia with a single mom and a rare talent for running. Over the next three decades, their paths cross in magical and ordinary ways, as they grow together and apart in starts and stops. But Rachel and Andy never forget that night in the hospital waiting room all of those years ago, a chance encounter that changed the course of both of their lives.
WHO DO YOU LOVE is a sweeping, fresh, and intimate tale about the passage of time and the differences between people. It touches on class, race, religion, celebrity, charity, what makes us strong, what renders us vulnerable, and how the people we choose to love, and how we love them, defines who we become—how the measure of a life is who you love
Advance Praise
“Andy and Rachel feel fully realized and easy to root for, even when they’re behaving badly and making mistakes. There are plenty of twists and turns in their relationship, and it’s satisfying to watch them wind their ways toward the novel’s perfectly realized conclusion. This moving story of love that spans a lifetime is Weiner at her heartstring-tugging best.” –Kirkus Reviews
“One of the biggest names in popular fiction.” — USAToday
“Compulsively readable. . . . Weiner’s skill is in the specifics. There’s no doubt she knows how to deliver
a certain kind of story, and well.” — The New York Times Book Review
“A wonderful natural writer and storyteller, Weiner renders her characters and their messy, sometimes wrenching lives in details that resonate as the real deal. . . . smart, lovable, and mordantly funny.”
— Publishers Weekly
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781451617818 |
PRICE | $27.00 (USD) |
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