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At 28, Helen longs to be effortless. Jamie looks it. Breaking a
long-standing engagement, Helen at once knows what she has to do. She
follows this enchanting stranger across the Atlantic, hoping to find
more than temporary shelter and a distraction from her seemingly
crumbling life when she gets there. Inevitably, the road for the two
proves to be bumpier than Helen had ever imagined it could be. Along the
way, she stumbles across unexpected discoveries about herself, as well
as those in her life she's always thought she knew best.
Excerpt:
"I’d heard a senior of mine, a beautiful
Argentinian girl named Paz (Veronika’s visually improbable best friend), once
say that relationships are like bogs, meaning that they grab ahold of you,
limbs first, and hold on until you can’t move anymore—or rather, until you lose
will to move at all. The unhappier the relationship, she was convinced, the
deeper the swamp, the stronger its hold. Once habit takes over where love or
lust had once been, we’re doomed, she’d summed up whilst perched on her desk
one morning, on time for once, her heels swaying aimlessly every which way. “It’s
all about addiction, guys! And addictions are tough to break.” In principle, it’s
hard for me to agree on much of anything with a teenager, but, in the musty hallway
of the building where I’d lived rent-free for way too long, I had to admit that,
had I seen George’s smug but familiar face that morning, heard his fake but
familiar guttural sobs at the sight of my departure, I’d lose will again."
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