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“[ Loved One ] is special . . . full of wildly astute delectably thorny questions about love
and loss and possession.” —Maggie Shipstead New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle
“Shimmers with wit even as it explores deep loss.” —Rachel Khong New York Times bestselling
author of Real Americans From an Emmy Award–winning writer comes a funny wise
heartbreaking story about a woman journeying into the unknown in the wake of sudden loss When
her first-love-turned-close-friend Gabe dies unexpectedly at twenty-nine thirty-year-old
Julia is launched into an intercontinental quest to recover his lost possessions. Her journey
takes her from Los Angeles to London and into the murky realm of the past. It also sets Julia
on a collision course with the last woman he loved a guarded self-possessed florist and
restaurateur named Elizabeth who insists on withholding Gabe’s beloved guitar—one of the
departed indie rock musician’s dearest belongings—for reasons Julia can’t understand. Both
women it turns out have something to hide and soon find themselves engaged in a complex dance
of withholding and revelation. An emotional mystery spanning years continents and
relationship statuses Loved One introduces Aisha Muharrar as a novelist intimately attuned to
the intricacies of love memory and ambiguous loss. What happens when we admit that the
deepest feelings never die? How do we reconcile various—and sometimes contradictory—truths
about those closest to us? An engrossing and profoundly moving coming-of-age story with a
powerful love at its heart Loved One is poised to become an instant classic.
