’NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In the long-awaited first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer
Prize finalist Kelly Link three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle. A
dreamlike profoundly beautiful novel [that] pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel
can be.—Amal El-Mohtar The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Imagine a ring of
David Mitchell and Stephen King books dancing around a fire until something new brave and
wonderful rose up from the flames.—Isaac Fitzgerald Today (Spring Pick!) The Book of Love
showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers channeling potent magic and attuned to all
varieties of love—from friendship to romance to abiding family ties—with her trademark
compassion wit and literary derring-do. Readers will find joy (and a little terror) and an
affirmation that love goes on even when we cannot. Late one night Laura Daniel and Mo find
themselves beneath the fluorescent lights of a high school classroom almost a year after
disappearing from their hometown the small seaside community of Lovesend Massachusetts
having long been presumed dead. Which in fact they are. With them in the room is their
previously unremarkable high school music teacher who seems to know something about their
disappearance—and what has brought them back again. Desperate to reclaim their lives the three
agree to the terms of the bargain their music teacher proposes. They will be given a series of
magical tasks while they undertake them they may return to their families and friends but
they can tell no one where they’ve been. In the end there will be winners and there will be
losers. But their resurrection has attracted the notice of other supernatural figures all with
their own agendas. As Laura Daniel and Mo grapple with the pieces of the lives they left
behind and Laura’s sister Susannah attempts to reconcile what she remembers with what she
fears these mysterious others begin to arrive engulfing their community in danger and chaos
and it becomes imperative that the teens solve the mystery of their deaths to avert a looming
disaster. Welcome to Kelly Link’s incomparable Lovesend where you’ll encounter love and loss
laughter and dread magic and karaoke and some really good pizza.
