This is a second chance, age-gap (15 years) romance.
Photographer, Sam Santoro left her hometown a decade
back. She was semi-involved with mentor, Laura Bailey, at that time but
effectively ghosted her. When Sam and Laura were in their ‘almost’ relationship,
Laura was married and kept promising Sam that she’d soon end her marriage.
After ten years of wandering the world and building her reputation as a travel
photographer, Sam is back in her hometown for a brief stay. Inevitably, given
the size of the town, she runs into Laura and both affect each other the way
they did a decade back. But some things have changed. Laura is divorced and out.
She is now dating women.
This book has one of the real-est dialogues that we’ve ever
read. When they bump into each other at a wedding and Sam opens conversation
with a couple of bland parries, Laura says, “Sam, I don’t think I can do this
with you…small talk.” It’s a different matter that they resort to small talk
later, but this dialogue is so, so real. Sam and Laura are otherwise normal
women who don’t exactly evoke and sort of strong feelings in the reader either
ways.
This is a short, nice enough read.
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