02459cam a2200433 i 4500 1863542080 TxAuBib 20250118120000.0 240618s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024005223 9780593851265 HRD 29.00 0593851269 HRD 29.00 (OCoLC)1440140502 TxAuBib rda Soffer, Jessica, author. This is a love story : a novel / Jessica Soffer. New York : Dutton, 2025. ©2025. 295 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Read with Jenna "A love letter to New York City, to Central Park, to art, and to love, told through the lens of a fifty-year romance and from various points of view"-- Provided by publisher. "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 itself, these voices weave in and out to paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself." -- Publisher. 20250202. jz. Older people Fiction. Terminally ill Fiction. Reminiscing in old age Fiction. Artists Fiction. Families Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Central Park (New York, N.Y.) Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Romance fiction. Domestic fiction. Read with Jenna.