Laws of Love and Logic

I absolutely loved this. It helped that I got to meet the author at a dinner and fell in love with her story (publishing her first novel at age 62 after ten years and 180 rejections!). It has very strong Broken Country vibes, beautiful writing, and centers around forgiveness. Lily grew up in the coastal town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island with a close-knit family. As a teenager, she falls madly in love for a boy, identified only as “the boy.” But when something awful happens that pulls them apart, Lily moves on with her life, eventually falling in love for a second time with a renowned ornithologist. Marshall is everything the boy was not: safe and stable, wealthy, older than Lily. When “the boy” appears in her life years later, Lily must confront a traumatic evening in the past (and her lingering feelings for him). Meanwhile, there is a sister story too: Lily’s brilliant sister Jane is a genius with numbers (but struggles with demons and addictions). This is a beautiful book about love, loss, sisterly love, romantic love, and our capacities for love and forgiveness. I could not put it down and thought it was so wonderful. I immediately passed it on to my own mother, who I know will love it too.