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After almost twenty years
together, Stella and Simon are starting to run into problems. An
up-and-coming rock musician when they first met, Simon has been clinging
to dreams of fame even as the possibility of it has grown dimmer, and
now that his band might finally be on the brink again, he wants to go on
the road, leaving Stella behind. But when she falls into a coma on the
eve of his departure, he has to make a choice between stardom and his
wife—and when she wakes a different person, with an incredible artistic
talent of her own, the two of them must examine what it is that they
really want.
Unapologetically honest and intimately written, With or Without You is a contemporary story of what happens to relationships as the people in them change, whether slowly or in one cataclysmic swoop.
Unapologetically honest and intimately written, With or Without You is a contemporary story of what happens to relationships as the people in them change, whether slowly or in one cataclysmic swoop.
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PRAISE BE!
What a compelling read this book is. With or Without You asks the great question of what happens to a long-loving couple if one of them changes utterly. This novel gives us high drama while keeping the fairest possible view of the messy lives of these characters. Another triumph for Caroline Leavitt.”
What a compelling read this book is. With or Without You asks the great question of what happens to a long-loving couple if one of them changes utterly. This novel gives us high drama while keeping the fairest possible view of the messy lives of these characters. Another triumph for Caroline Leavitt.”
Joan Silber, National Book Critic Circle award winner, Improvement
"A
wonderful novel about life as mess and disappointment, life as
catastrophe and regret, but also life as transformation and resilience.
Leavitt’s characters are great company, and watching them find a way
forward in their suddenly altered worlds is a joy. Deeply engaging,
tense but hopeful, and completely recommended – Karen
Joy Fowler, New York Times Bestselling author of We Are All Completely
Beside Ourselves, Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize, Winner of
the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award
"Old
secrets, healed wounds and surprising futures. One character's coma is
only the first surprise in this satisfying story of middle-aged love" STARRED Kirkus Review.
"Packs
an emotional wallop and this: Leavitt’s seamless writing easily carries
readers through the compelling story. .Leavitt’s fans and readers of
domestic drama will be thrilled.- Booklist
"Illuminating.
This is a highly readable exploration of the fluid nature of
relationships and redemptive power of self-reflection." Publishers' Weekly
“A
moving novel about twists of fate, the shifting terrain of love, and
coming into your own. With tenderness and incisive insight, Leavitt
spotlights a woman's unexpected journey towards her art.”
Madeline Miller, author of Circe, #1 New York Times Bestseller
"Old
secrets, healed wounds and surprising futures. One character's coma is
only the first surprise in this satisfying story of middle-aged love" STARRED Kirkus Review.
"Packs
an emotional wallop and this: Leavitt’s seamless writing easily carries
readers through the compelling story. .Leavitt’s fans and readers of
domestic drama will be thrilled.- Booklist
"Illuminating.
This is a highly readable exploration of the fluid nature of
relationships and redemptive power of self-reflection." Publishers' Weekly
“A
moving novel about twists of fate, the shifting terrain of love, and
coming into your own. With tenderness and incisive insight, Leavitt
spotlights a woman's unexpected journey towards her art.”
Madeline Miller, author of Circe, #1 New York Times Bestseller
"A
quietly intimate story to get lost in. It's a moving story with
characters you can't help but care for, especially Stella, who must
builds a new life after her brush with death." AARP
"In
With or Without You, Caroline Leavitt once again explores disaster's
aftermath and its affect on the lives of ordinary people tethered by
love and shared history. What makes this novel so poignant, and also
makes it feel so true, is that there is no going back. There is only
now, the newness of their altered realities and the courage to
continue.”
Helen Schulman, internationally bestselling author of This Beautiful Life and Come With Me
“After all of their lives are irrevocably altered by a single tragic incident, Stella, Simon, and Libby--the major characters in Caroline Leavitt’s compelling, deeply moving new novel--are forced to make complex choices between freedom and responsibility, love and loyalty. Leavitt depicts her characters without judgment, and by doing so compels readers to ask themselves what they might do in such difficult moments.” Ron Rash, Pen Faulkner finalist, New York Times Bestselling author of The Risen
“With
or Without You is a compulsively readable novel of artistic ambition
and the various betrayals lovers and friends both endure and inflict on
each other. It also asks fascinating questions about the stability of
the self and our capacity – perhaps even our secret desire? – to
reinvent ourselves. Caroline Leavitt is a born storyteller, and this is
one knockout of a story.” --- Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men
“When
I started reading Caroline Leavitt's gorgeously written page-turner,
With or Without You, I felt like I were falling in love: flushed,
fascinated, filled with hope, fear and joy. Leavitt's exploration of the
many ways in which we change over the course of a lifetime—and how we
keep or lose those we love throughout these mutations—is compassionate,
profound and moving. Beyond being utterly captivated, I felt like I had
grown wiser and more humane after reading this beautiful novel.”
Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Translation and Searching for Sylvie Lee
Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Translation and Searching for Sylvie Lee
Not
only does Caroline Leavitt write like an angel, in WITH OR WITHOUT YOU,
she has come up with a plot that is both wildly original and which
rings ancient bells about the the way life’s most awful surprises
sometimes coming bearing the greatest of gifts. Stella, a nurse, wakes
from a coma with extraordinary abilities that threaten her lover, Simon,
a musician down on his luck. Pushed toward choices she never knew she
had, Stella discovers that her most remarkable power may be the will to
discover herself — and reading the newest from one of America’s great
storytellers, you may discover the same thing.
Jacquelyn Mitchard author, THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN
Jacquelyn Mitchard author, THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN
“Caroline
Leavitt's new novel With or Without You seduced me instantly and held
my heart from the first page to the last. Like Elena Ferrante's raw and
intimate explorations into human relationships this novel will make you
laugh, cry, yell, and possibly more. At the heart of the story is the
art of a woman's life, pulsing with beauty, desire, loss, never-ending
change, and the grit it takes to keep going.” Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan
"This
fresh, engaging, intimate tale of love and identity subverts the
reader’s expectations again and again. Caroline Leavitt refuses to take
one cliche’d turn. A complete original, an absolute delight."—Janet Fitch, The Revolution of Marina M., Chimes of a Lost Cathedral.
“Caroline
Leavitt has accomplished in With or Without the hardest but most
profound task of the novelist: she makes us not only understand but care
about characters as flawed as ourselves. Stella, Simon, and Libby
straddle the ravine between hip urbanity and soulful vulnerability –
each achieving a redemption that gives us hope that we might too.”
--Lisa Gornick, Author of The Peacock Feast and Louisa Meets Bear
"I
was truly immersed from page one of With or Without You, Caroline
Leavitt's new novel. It should be on the cover of the Indie Next List
when it is published. Booksellers and book clubs are going to embrace
this novel. Caroline has crafted the perfect storm of intriguing plot,
beautiful prose, and characters with whom the reader forms an emotional
connection. Having read her entire body of work, it came as no surprise
that she has once again struck a literary gold mine. So often art is
written about in terms of the artist's soul being transferred onto the
canvas. Caroline did a remarkable job of making it truly believable that
Stella was able to see into her subject's soul and bring it to life in
the art. Sure to be popular with readers interested in art, music,
medical drama, and all the book clubs looking for a meaty novel that
will spur discussion. I will be recommending this novel to all my
friends and look forward to hand selling it in the store.”
Pamela Klinger-Horn, Excelsior Bay Books
Pamela Klinger-Horn, Excelsior Bay Books
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