Louisa Meets Bear - Lisa Gornick
Each of these exquisitely crafted stories is a stand-along gem; read together, characters interlock in ways that continuously surprise. Gornick infuses this narrative of love, loss, and yearning with a nuanced complexity that perhaps only a former psychotherapist could bring to her writing. The lifelong tension that binds Louisa and Bear, lovers who first meet in college but have chosen different paths resolves—or does not resolve at all—in such a quietly affecting manner that one may need a moment of quiet reflection—or a box of Kleenex—after turning the final page.
(This book cannot be returned.)