True loves book5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() While working a shift at Blair Books one evening, she is asked out by Sam, a boy who also works at the store and is a couple of years older than her. Emma develops a crush on him, but is forced to quell her feelings when he starts going out with another girl. In her freshman year, she comes across Jesse Lerner, a classmate who is handsome and popular, and considered a prodigy swimmer. Emma is far less popular at school and hates reading-she wants to leave Acton as soon as possible and travel the world instead. ![]() She has an older sister, Marie, with whom she is not close Marie is the perfect “Bookseller’s Daughter”-smart, popular, an avid reader and aspiring writer. Part 2 explores how Emma deals with Jesse’s reappearance.Įmma is born and raised in Acton, Massachusetts, where her parents own and run a bookstore, Blair Books, founded by her great-uncle. Part 1 follows Emma’s high school life and relationship with Jesse, Jesse’s disappearance, and her eventual engagement to Sam. The Prologue sets up the novel’s context and central conflict: the return of Emma Blair’s first husband, Jesse Lerner, from his presumed death, just two months after she gets engaged to another man, Sam Kemper. ![]() This guide is based on the Simon and Schuster UK Kindle Edition. ![]()
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