num_pages: 432
description:  The story of the heart can never be unwritten.Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident plan her wedding to an older financially secure man keep her head down and heart tucked away.But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulosthe first and only love of her lifethe careful bubble shes constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time Elliot was Macys entire worldgrowing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother...only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her.Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much morespending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books sharing favorite words and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macys decade-long silence and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.Love loss friendship and the betrayals of the past all collide in this first fiction novel from New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren (Autoboyography Dating You / Hating You).
language: English
title: Love and Other Words
publisher: Gallery Books