On November 9th, eighteen-year-old Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring writer, just hours before she moves from Los Angeles to New York. Instead of starting a long-distance relationship, they agree to meet at the same location on that specific calendar date for the next five years. They bypass digital contact, choosing to remain strangers during the intervening months. Over these annual reunions, Ben uses their interactions as the primary blueprint for his novel. However, as the years progress, Fallon begins to question whether Ben’s displays of affection are genuine or if he is manipulating their reality to engineer a better ending for his manuscript.
Fans of contemporary romance read this story to see how the constraints of time and distance impact emotional intimacy. It appeals to those interested in the intersections of creative writing and personal history. The reader observes how trauma and shared secrets can alter the trajectory of a relationship over half a decade. By the conclusion, the reader understands how the boundaries between author and subject can blur, and how a person’s perception of their own past can change based on new information revealed in the present.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- ISBN
- 9781501151712
- Language
- EN
