This Is a Love Story A Novel

Jessica Soffer

eBook - 2025

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY“This may be the most epic love story I’ve ever, ever read.”—Jenna Bush Hager on TODAYAn intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the sacrifices we make for bothFor 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 th...ey 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... more