Barnes & Noble has chosen Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press) as its October national book club pick. In a live virtual event on Tuesday, November 4, at 3 p.m. Eastern, King will be in conversation with Lexie Smyth, fiction campaign manager at B&N, and Brenda Allison, frontlist buyer at B&N.
B&N described the book this way: "Heart the Lover follows a college trio--our unnamed narrator and her two classmates--who develop a close yet complicated bond over the duration of their senior year. King captures not only the thrills and terrors of first love, but the dysfunction, zeal, grief, regret, and confusion of adolescence--and the consequences that inevitably accompany it. Readers will find themselves eager to flip the pages between the alternating timelines that weave together to create a bittersweet portrait of the past. This beautiful masterpiece of the messiness of life will resonate deeply with all those who have already come to adore Lily King's work, and those now fortunate enough to experience it for the first time."
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