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This Is a Love Story

About the Book

This Is a Love Story

An intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the sacrifices we make for both.

For 50 years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park. They came alone to get away from each other and together for important discussions and pivotal life moments. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now.

Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew --- their courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives --- and the parts they didn’t always want to know --- the determined young student of Abe’s looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood, and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs.

An homage to New York City, to romance and even to loss, THIS IS A LOVE STORY tenderly and suspensefully captures deep truths about life and marriage in radiant prose. It is about love that endures despite what life throws at us, or perhaps even because of it.

This Is a Love Story
by Jessica Soffer

  • Publication Date: January 27, 2026
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Dutton
  • ISBN-10: 0593851285
  • ISBN-13: 9780593851289