When You Read This: A Novel
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One of Thrillist’s Best Books of 2019
One of Good Housekeeping’s Best Books of 2019
“Fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette will love this. . . a bittersweet, often funny novel about hope, memory, and loose ends.”
—Real Simple, “The Best Books of 2019 (So Far)”
A comedy-drama for the digital age: an epistolary debut novel about the ties that bind and break our hearts, for fans of Maria Semple and Rainbow Rowell.
Iris Massey is gone.
But she’s left something behind.
For four years, Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi, helping clients perfect their brands. But Iris has died, taken by terminal illness at only thirty-three. Adrift without his friend and colleague, Smith is surprised to discover that in her last six months, Iris created a blog filled with sharp and often funny musings on the end of a life not quite fulfilled. She also made one final request: for Smith to get her posts published as a book. With the help of his charmingly eager, if overbearingly forthright, new intern Carl, Smith tackles the task of fulfilling Iris’s last wish.
Before he can do so, though, he must get the approval of Iris’ big sister Jade, an haute cuisine chef who’s been knocked sideways by her loss. Each carrying their own baggage, Smith and Jade end up on a collision course with their own unresolved pasts and with each other.
Told in a series of e-mails, blog posts, online therapy submissions, text messages, legal correspondence, home-rental bookings, and other snippets of our virtual lives, When You Read This is a deft, captivating romantic comedy—funny, tragic, surprising, and bittersweet—that candidly reveals how we find new beginnings after loss.
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I didn't know I could love this book so much! --- When a book is done in a series of documents; diary entries, emails, texts, blogs, drawings, paper. I know for a FACT that I am going to end up LOVING THE BOOK! There's such an intimate feeling when you’re reading someone's emails or text messages that satisfy my stalker self! ‘Heres the thing I need to figure out. This whole time I thought my real life hadn't started yet. Turns out that was my life. I have six months or so to make that okay, somehow.’ Besides it being in a format that I LOVE… It will help you to be honest with yourself. Face realities, the thing you are trying to hide from. It on grief, how we handle grief, how other people do, and how we accept it, which also in some way gives us hope, acceptance, and maybe also event help. A book that once should definitely read RIGHT NOW.
Description
One of Thrillist’s Best Books of 2019
One of Good Housekeeping’s Best Books of 2019
“Fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette will love this. . . a bittersweet, often funny novel about hope, memory, and loose ends.”
—Real Simple, “The Best Books of 2019 (So Far)”
A comedy-drama for the digital age: an epistolary debut novel about the ties that bind and break our hearts, for fans of Maria Semple and Rainbow Rowell.
Iris Massey is gone.
But she’s left something behind.
For four years, Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi, helping clients perfect their brands. But Iris has died, taken by terminal illness at only thirty-three. Adrift without his friend and colleague, Smith is surprised to discover that in her last six months, Iris created a blog filled with sharp and often funny musings on the end of a life not quite fulfilled. She also made one final request: for Smith to get her posts published as a book. With the help of his charmingly eager, if overbearingly forthright, new intern Carl, Smith tackles the task of fulfilling Iris’s last wish.
Before he can do so, though, he must get the approval of Iris’ big sister Jade, an haute cuisine chef who’s been knocked sideways by her loss. Each carrying their own baggage, Smith and Jade end up on a collision course with their own unresolved pasts and with each other.
Told in a series of e-mails, blog posts, online therapy submissions, text messages, legal correspondence, home-rental bookings, and other snippets of our virtual lives, When You Read This is a deft, captivating romantic comedy—funny, tragic, surprising, and bittersweet—that candidly reveals how we find new beginnings after loss.
Book Information
Posts
I didn't know I could love this book so much! --- When a book is done in a series of documents; diary entries, emails, texts, blogs, drawings, paper. I know for a FACT that I am going to end up LOVING THE BOOK! There's such an intimate feeling when you’re reading someone's emails or text messages that satisfy my stalker self! ‘Heres the thing I need to figure out. This whole time I thought my real life hadn't started yet. Turns out that was my life. I have six months or so to make that okay, somehow.’ Besides it being in a format that I LOVE… It will help you to be honest with yourself. Face realities, the thing you are trying to hide from. It on grief, how we handle grief, how other people do, and how we accept it, which also in some way gives us hope, acceptance, and maybe also event help. A book that once should definitely read RIGHT NOW.