This Is a Love Story

Over fifty years, Abe and Jane have kept coming back to Central Park: as young lovers, as worn-out parents, as an artist and a writer on the rise, alone when they needed distance and together when they had something to settle. Jessica Soffer's novel finds them as Jane is seriously ill and looks back across their marriage, from courtship to the parts they would sometimes rather not have known. Their son, Max, now grown, still believes his mother put art ahead of raising him and steers clear of love and intimacy. The novel became an instant New York Times best seller. It is told from several points of view, at times even in conversation with the park itself.

It appeared on Jenna Bush Hager's Read With Jenna book club list on the Today Show.