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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language in the contemporary literary register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild adult romantic content
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in the New York professional setting
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The grief of anticipatory loss and the question of what love really means — and costs — is the novel's full emotional subject; readers should be prepared for significant emotional weight
What this book is about
Rebecca Serle's novel follows Dannie Kohan, a type-A New York lawyer who has her life perfectly planned, who has a vivid dream on the night of her engagement about a different apartment, a different man, five years from now. When that man appears in her real life, the dream's meaning becomes devastating and unavoidable. Serle writes a love story about grief that hits harder than expected. The novel deals with terminal illness and loss with honesty and emotion.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Significant grief and terminal illness themes
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