Romantic Comedy: The bestselling Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick by the author of RODHAM and AMERICAN WIFE

If you’re our age and single, dating kind of has to be an act of reckless optimism, right? The triumph of hope over experience?”

“Okay.” A jitteriness swelled in my stomach, distinct from the swoony anticipation of seeing him; this jitteriness was sour.

“I promise that someday you’ll find the love you deserve, but it might not be when or how you’re expecting it.”

try. I reminded myself of someone, and then I realized it was Sugar during a thunderstorm.

so really, wouldn’t it have been a waste of time to fret about my thighs or belly?

but the truth was that he read it only at night and rarely got through more than a few pages before falling asleep;

beautiful, unexpected relief.

Through my mask, his neck smelled the way he smelled on waking, some combination of being outside in the woods and bread, and I thought how in the last few weeks, the idea of him had sometimes made me nervous but the reality of him always comforted me.

and wished that being aware of my own ridiculousness could somehow decrease my ridiculousness.