by Lynn Darling
First published 2008
Lynn Darling enters Harvard at sixteen, a brilliant rebel of the sixties who treats every romance as an adventure. At the Washington Post, she meets Lee Lescaze, an older married foreign correspondent from the establishment world she typically scorns. He represents everything she stands against: older, settled, conventional. Yet when love strikes, it transforms everything she believes about herself and her carefully constructed life of freedom. Their relationship turns marriage conventions upside down as Darling discovers the full spectrum of committed love: its tenderness and excitement, its comfort and inevitable disappointments. She thought she understood her own story until meeting her "one true north" rewrote the entire narrative. Ten years after his death, Darling reflects on how love taught her lessons she never expected to learn.
Genres: literary-fiction, 20th-century, contemporary, adult-fiction, biographical-fiction, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Harvard, Washington Post
Period: 1960s
240 pages · Paperback · Dial Press Trade Paperback