Love & Other Words

"Macy Sorenson is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away. But when she runs into Eliot Petropoulos-the first and only love of her life-the careful bubble she's constructed slowly begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy's entire world-growing from her gangly, bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again . . . Only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her. Told in alternating time lines between then and now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more-spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to each other until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened to many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth of Macy's decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love."