A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From #1 New York Times
bestselling author Rainbow Rowell comes Slow Dance— her smartest funniest most powerful novel
yet “If you like me think thirty-somethings methodically working through their issues is
very hot Slow Dance is the book for you. The people in it feel like people you know or maybe
even people you’ve been. Slow Dance is sexy sweet wise and nostalgic—Jane Austen’s
Persuasion for our times.” — Gabrielle Zevin New York Times bestselling author of
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Shiloh Butler was supposed to get out of north Omaha. She
used to sit out on the front porch with her best friend Cary and plot their escape. Shiloh
was going to be an actress – she had a scholarship to a good school – and Cary was
laser-focused on the Navy. Sharp stoic golden-eyed Cary . . . thin as a stick of gum and poor
as dirt. He was probably the most decent person Shiloh has ever known. She hasn’t spoken to him
in fourteen years. When Shiloh gets an invitation to a high school friend’s wedding Cary is
the first and only thing on her mind. She desperately wants to see him again but she doesn’t
know if she can bear being seen by him. What would Cary think of Shiloh at thirty-three? A
divorced mom living in the same house she grew up in. Someone who works behind a desk not
onstage. Would Cary even want to see Shiloh after all this time? After everything ? The answer
it turns out is yes. In her triumphant return to adult fiction Rainbow Rowell has written a
love story so honest and human – so cathartic – you’ll feel it in your bones. Slow Dance is as
sharp and compassionate as you’d expect from Rowell. Deeply profoundly romantic it’s a power
ballad of a book.
