{"product_id":"heart-the-lover","title":"Heart the Lover","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"You knew I'd write a book about you someday.\" Our narrator understands good love stories-their secrets and subtext, their highs and their free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules. In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. Youthful passion is unpredictable though, and she soon finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever. Decades later, Jordan is living the life she dreamed of, and the vulnerable days of her youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news brings the past crashing into the present, she returns to a world she left behind and is forced to confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self. Written with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans and critics of Lily King have come to adore, Heart the Lover is a deeply moving story that celebrates love, friendship, and the transformative nature of forgiveness. Wise, unforgettable, and with a delightful connective thread to Writers \u0026amp; Lovers, this is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today\"-- Provided by publisher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"You knew I'd write a book about you someday.\" Our narrator understands good love stories-their secrets and subtext, their highs and their free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules. In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. Youthful passion is unpredictable though, and she soon finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever. Decades later, Jordan is living the life she dreamed of, and the vulnerable days of her youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news brings the past crashing into the present, she returns to a world she left behind and is forced to confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self. Written with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans and critics of Lily King have come to adore, Heart the Lover is a deeply moving story that celebrates love, friendship, and the transformative nature of forgiveness. Wise, unforgettable, and with a delightful connective thread to Writers \u0026amp; Lovers, this is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today\"--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLily King\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of six novels--\u003ci\u003eHeart the Lover\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Euphoria\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFather of the Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe English Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Pleasing Hour\u003c\/i\u003e--as well as the story collection \u003ci\u003eFive Tuesdays in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award, the Maine Book Award, and a Whiting Award; has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award, the Women's Prize, and the Story Prize; and has been longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. She lives in Portland, Maine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eHeart the Lover\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInstant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Indies Choice Book Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eTIME Magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Harper's Baazar, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003e Vogue, Oprah Daily, People Magazine, USA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub, Electric Literature, Kirkus Review, BookPage, \u003c\/i\u003e Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Barnes \u0026amp; Nobles, PEN America, Chicago Public Library\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 Indie Next Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 Library Reads Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Read This Next Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eZadie Smith's Elle.com Shelf Life pick for \"the book that made me weep uncontrollably\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Even I, who married my college sweetheart more than 40 happy years ago, read Lily King's new novel about what might have been in a state of blubbery longing . . . \u003ci\u003eHeart The Lover \u003c\/i\u003eis nostalgia distilled in black ink . . . King captures [her protagonist's] guileless sense of awe with just a dusting of parody that never grows silly or bitter . . . And what's particularly remarkable is how subtly King ages her narrator, preserving the kernel of that young woman's openhearted urgency in the older woman's complex voice . . . Only Lily King could tell a story so steeped in sorrow and so filled with hope.\"--\u003cb\u003eRon Charles, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"King is a master of sexual tension, of the slow build, of gratification tortuously delayed. In this respect, \u003ci\u003eHeart the Lover\u003c\/i\u003e is her best work yet.\"--\u003cb\u003eLauren Christensen, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Might be her best book yet . . . It stands as one of the most emotionally devastating and soulfully wise novels I have ever read . . . Like all of King's fiction, \u003ci\u003eHeart The Lover \u003c\/i\u003eis literary without pretension, emotional without maudlin sentimentality . . . heartrending, swoonily romantic, rigorously clear-sighted.\"--\u003cb\u003ePriscilla Gilman, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The latest masterpiece from the author of \u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEuphoria \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures all the fevered obsession of 20-something romance--plus the deeper satisfaction of watching characters evolve beyond youthful hang-ups into fully realized adulthood.\"\u003ci\u003e--\u003cb\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Enveloping and sly . . . building heft in a manner as mysterious as affairs of the heart.\"\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHeart the Lover\u003c\/i\u003e, like \u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e, feels at times as if it has been poured directly from the writer's soul onto the page. Its opening words flag an elegy--to a lost love and to youth . . . What starts as a campus novel leaps over decades to offer a more expansive view of life that spans the emotional gamut from elation to grief. (Keep tissues handy.)\"--\u003cb\u003eHeller McAlpin, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Witty, insightful . . . King is able to employ the best kind of humor: amusing comments that are funny not because of what is said but because we can hear exactly how the characters are saying them.\"--\u003cb\u003eChris Hewitt, \u003ci\u003eThe Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Intensely moving . . . The structure of \u003ci\u003eHeart the Lover\u003c\/i\u003e is so ingenious, its emotional charge so compelling . . . [A] great triangular love story . . . about screwing up, wising up, finding yourself and realizing what you may have lost in the process.\"--\u003cb\u003eMaureen Corrigan, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An intimate novel about formative first love, friendship, and the relationships that never leave us. This time-hopping story (of the perfect length, if you ask me!) sweeps you into the narrator's point of view with such visceral immediacy that it's easy to lose yourself in her memories. I canceled my plans to finish this gorgeous book, and I felt welcomely emo for a few days afterward.\"--\u003cb\u003eBeck Harlan, NPR, \"20 Books to Read With Your Book Club\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"King wholly captures the highs and the heartbreak of a passionate college romance . . . One of many lovely aspects of King's writing is her ability to convey yearning as an integral component of character . . . Has many individual sentences that glow like small gems, as with a character's sudden awareness of a landscape . . . Achingly poignant.\"--\u003cb\u003eCarol Iaciofano Aucoin, \u003ci\u003e WBUR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Achingly, gloriously \u003ci\u003esincere.\u003c\/i\u003e You could say to a fault, except it's clearly intentional. These are young people who want to fall into big feelings but also wonder if they can handle them at the same time.\"--\u003cb\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[T]his affecting novel...questions whether a person can inhabit any moment other than the present.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Suffused with the heady impermanence of first love, King's sixth novel is bittersweet, astutely observed, and thoroughly engaging.\"\u003ci\u003e--\u003cb\u003ePeople\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"To read Lily King is to love her.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarper's Baazar, \u003c\/i\u003e\"The 10 Best Books of 2025\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHeart the Lover\u003c\/i\u003e is the kind of immersive, overwhelming novel that makes you want to live inside it for days. It's both prequel and sequel to King's 2020 novel \u003ci\u003eWriters and Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e, but it stands on its own perfectly well if you haven't read its predecessor. (I haven't, and now I'm longing to.) Be warned: Once you've opened the covers, you aren't putting it down until you have to.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVox\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \"The 10 Best Books of 2025\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Witty, insightful . . . sharp, funny company . . . Jordan's first-person narration is so observant and distinctive that we feel like we know her\"--\u003cb\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHeart The Lover\u003c\/i\u003e is alternately sweet and heartbreaking. King is so good at making a big impression with small details. There's never a word out of place nor any in excess, and yet she still manages to convey so much in the vignettes we see of the characters' lives. I think this book conveys so well how our lives can be shaped profoundly even by someone you only knew for a short period of time. But it's not just about knowing them, it's about them knowing you at that particular moment of your life, the way that version of you is preserved in their memory.\"--\u003cb\u003eMary Kate Carr, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA. V. Club\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A short but incredible novel about first loves and how those loves hook your heart and don't let go. Who do we still love from our past? Who still loves us? An incredibly written but sparing work, Lily King's newest is a masterpiece of humanity and beauty. It will knock your socks off.\"--\u003cb\u003eKate Gibson, co-host of \u003ci\u003eThe Book Case\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lily King's latest is a weeper, full of card games and witty banter and sure to tug at your heartstrings.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Y]oung and intense and foolishly stubborn, this love triangle takes a redemptive turn that feels grounded, believable and quite beautiful. Jordan is a wonderful protagonist--funny, despairing, self-deprecating, lonely and determined to write novels. This is a satisfying, emotionally rich tearjerker, a book that just may make you sob out loud.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookpage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"King's swoony story of love and literature, of paths taken and not taken, of the past selves we never truly leave behind, is quietly robust and nearly impossible to put down.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"King is a genius at writing love stories . . . Her mostly sunny version of the campus novel is an enjoyable alternative to the current vogue for dark academia. Tragedies are on the way, though, as we know they must be, as nothing gold can stay and these darn fictional characters seem to make the same kinds of stupid mistakes that real people do. Tenderhearted readers will soak the pages of the last chapter with tears. That college love affair you never got over? Come wallow in this gorgeous version of it.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[T]his book both delighted me intellectually and affected me on a profound emotional plane . . . It's the best love story I've read all year, and the day I finished reading it, I did something I have never done before: I put my copy into an envelope and sent it to my best friend, so that I'd have someone to talk to about it.\"\u003cb\u003e--Emily Temple, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, 15 Novels you Need to Read this Fall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Beautifully written . . . I was hooked from the first page.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A triangle charged with secrecy, longing, uncertainty . . . Exploring how first love shapes a lifetime, here is a novel of piercing clarity.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lily King has written another masterpiece. This book overflows with her brilliance and her heart. We are so lucky.\"--\u003cb\u003eEmma Straub, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThis Time Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Time moves like memory in \u003ci\u003eHeart the Lover\u003c\/i\u003e--urgent, intimate, elusive. What does it mean to carry a story you never get to finish? With breathtaking precision, Lily King writes about love that lingers and choices that haunt. I read it in a single, breathless sitting.\" --\u003cb\u003eRuth Ozeki, author of the Women's Prize for Fiction winner \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Form and Emptiness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Indescribably good. It is incredible that Lily has managed to tell such an epic love story in just 250 pages, and I emerged feeling ruined for all other books. I adored these characters and feel lucky to have known them. I'm in awe. A perfect literary love story.\" --\u003cb\u003eFlorence Knapp, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Names\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I inhaled this novel in one breathless gulp, constantly asking myself, how is she doing it? How is she writing this tender, funny, deeply empathetic novel while also making it impossible for me to stop turning the page? \u003ci\u003eHeart the Lover\u003c\/i\u003e is a magic pill and Lily King is its virtuosic alchemist.\"--\u003cb\u003eTahmima Anam, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Startup Wife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret.\" --\u003cb\u003eDavid Nicholls, author of \u003ci\u003eOne Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A tender and memorable novel about love, loss, and friendship that lifts and undoes you equally.\" --\u003cb\u003eSusie Boyt, author of \u003ci\u003eLoved and Missed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHeart the Lover\u003c\/i\u003e returns Lily King to what she does better than anyone these days: fast-moving romances that only slow unexpectedly for a sock in the gut.\"--\u003cb\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The No.1 way to tell how much I am impacted by something? How hard it is for me to shut up about it. I have not shut up about this book.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJackson Mississippi Clarion Ledger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With wit and what reads like deep insider wisdom, Ms. King captures the chronic low-level panic of taking a leap into the artsy unknown and finding yourself adrift, without land or rescue in sight.\" --\u003cb\u003eMaureen Corrigan, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph . . . The voice is just so honest and riveting and insightful about creativity and life.\" --\u003cb\u003eCurtis Sittenfeld, \u003ci\u003eLondon Evening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[D]elightful . . . [A]n unmistakable broadside against fiction's love affair with macho strivers, even -- or especially -- when layers of lyricism and tenderness coat their machismo. The emotional force of \u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e is considerable.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Wonderful, witty, heartfelt . . . \u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e is a funny novel about grief, and, worse, it's dangerously romantic, bold enough and fearless enough to imagine the possibility of unbounded happiness.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This smooth, deliberate chronicle of creation keeps the men in their place and Casey firmly rooted at the center of her own story. Instead of casting her as a woman torn between archetypes of male creativity, \u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e portrays her as a woman in thrall to her own generative processes, a devotee to the art of (her own) attention.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"King has created a woman on the cusp of personal fulfillment and strong enough to stand on her own, someone akin to Sally Rooney's Frances in \u003ci\u003eConversations with Friends\u003c\/i\u003e . . . But King also situates Casey inside a variation of the which-lover-will-she-choose framework of, say, Nancy Meyers's film \u003ci\u003eSomething's Gotta Give . . . \u003c\/i\u003eThe novel is a meditation on trying itself: to stay alive, to love, to care. That point feels so fresh, so powerfully diametrically opposed to the readily available cynicism we've been feasting on . . . King wants us to keep trying, through whatever means necessary, to beat the odds.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This novel will become a defining classic for struggling young writers.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e made me happy. Even as the narrator grieves the loss of her mother and struggles to make art and keep a roof over her head, the novel is suffused with hopefulness and kindness. Lily King writes with a great generosity of spirit.\" --\u003cb\u003eAnn Patchett, author of \u003ci\u003eTom Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lily King is one of our great literary treasures and \u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e is suffused with her brilliance. It is captivating, potent, incisive, and wise, a moving story of grief, and recovering from grief, and of a young woman finding her courage for life.\" --\u003cb\u003eMadeline Miller, author of \u003ci\u003eCirce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gorgeous!\" --\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Strout, author of \u003ci\u003eOlive Kitteridge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If you loved \u003ci\u003eThe Friend \u003c\/i\u003ebut wish it had had more sex and waitressing, get ready for Lily King's \u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e. Delicious.\" --\u003cb\u003eEmma Straub, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThis Time Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eEuphoria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Taut, witty, fiercely intelligent . . . King is brilliant.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Atmospheric and sensual . . . An intellectually stimulating tour de force.\" --\u003cb\u003eNPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eFather of the Rain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Surprising and wise . . . An absorbing, insightful story written in cool, polished prose right to the last conflicted line.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"King is a beautiful writer, with equally strong gifts for dialogue and internal monologue.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Haunting, incisive . . . King is brilliant.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An excellent novel, sensitive and perceptive.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN\/FAULKNER AWARD AND THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eTIME Magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Harper's Baazar, \u003c\/i\u003e NPR, \u003ci\u003eVogue, Oprah Daily, People Magazine, USA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub, Electric Literature, Kirkus Review, BookPage, \u003c\/i\u003eApple, Spotify, Amazon, Barnes \u0026amp; Nobles, PEN America, Chicago Public Library\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Lily King has written another masterpiece. This book overflows with her brilliance and her heart. We are so lucky.\" --Emma Straub, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThis Time Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou knew I'd write a book about you someday.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur narrator understands good love stories--their secrets and subtext, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. But youthful passion is unpredictable, and soon she finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecades later, the vulnerable days of Jordan's youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news bring the past crashing into the present, she returns to a world she left behind and must confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans and critics of Lily King have come to adore, \u003ci\u003eHeart the Lover\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply moving love story that celebrates literature, forgiveness, and the transformative bonds that shape our lives. Wise, unforgettable, and with a delightful connective thread to \u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e, this is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 09\/01\/2025 pg. 3 (EAN 9780802165176, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 08\/01\/2025 (EAN 9780802165176, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e 09\/28\/2025 (EAN 9780802165176, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 08\/25\/2025 (EAN 9780802165176, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 09\/01\/2025 (EAN 9780802165176, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496288485654,"sku":"9780802165176","price":33.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780802165176.jpg?v=1783059074","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/heart-the-lover","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}