This Is a Love Story: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Jessica Soffer

Narrated by: Marin Ireland

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“This may be the most epic love story I’ve ever, ever read.”—Jenna Bush Hager on TODAY

An intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the sacrifices we make for both

For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now.

Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew—their courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives—and the parts they didn’t always want to know—the determined young student of Abe’s looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood, and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs. Told in various points of view, even in conversation with Central Park, these voices weave in and out to paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself.

An homage to New York City, to romance, and even to loss, This Is a Love Story tenderly and suspensefully captures deep truths about life and marriage in radiant prose. It is about love that endures despite what life throws at us, or perhaps even because of it.

Truth,honesty, reality

Boring and yet you can’t stop listening and then hearing…it’s about fun and failing, it’s about disappointment and keeping on and caring and mistakes and do overs and not being able to do over and living to forgive.. it’s about being there and sometimes not.. and being sorry you weren’t..it’s about life and living…it’s really just about love…

Poetically written

This beautifully written novel is one that you wish would never end. I’ll listen to it again no doubt.

This is more of a life story than a love story

I listened to this on audio and the narrator was amazing, excellent job for sure . This author has great writing skills and I would definitely recommend and read more from her . With that send this book is more of a life story over love . It was heartbreaking and not just for the loss of the main character in the end of her life but for all the very reasons that make a life story very complex,sad and difficult at times. I think the writer showcased too much of the lows in this couple life and the results of those hard times and didn’t touch enough on the beautiful times in life . The beautiful times were skimmed and the hard times were showcased. More balance would have been such a better way to go,just my humble opinion. If you call a book a love story then show it more . Life is hard and complicated but if you only focus on those moments it can be a bit depressing. The read had a bit too much “ depress “ to it .

The love rather through good or bad times it’s always there

This book was so emotionally good it teaches you to remember the good and bad in life as eventually it all comes to an end. I can’t explain the love that runs through this book with the good as well as the bad. It makes you take a good hard look at life and the way you live it will r don’t.

well read story of deep personal feelings

I was moved by the depth conveyed by each character. the writing was cool to hear. I would download another of this author's pieces.