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Loved one / Aisha Muharrar.
"A warm, witty, and wise novel about a woman who goes looking for answers after her first love turned best friend dies unexpectedly, and winds up finding herself"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593655849 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 326 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Viking, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
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| Subject: | Best friends > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. First loves > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Musicians > Death > Fiction. Quests (Expeditions) > Fiction. Women > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. Novels. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Muhar | 31681010436871 | FICTION | Checked out | 01/13/2026 |
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"A warm, witty, and wise novel about a woman who goes looking for answers after her first love turned best friend dies unexpectedly, and winds up finding herself"-- - Baker & Taylor
Juliaâs first-love-turned-close-friend, Gabe, dies unexpectedly at twenty-nine, and after beginning an intercontinental quest to recover his possessions, she collides with Elizabeth, the last woman he loved, who insists on withholding Gabeâs beloved guitarâboth women, it turns out, have something to hide. - Penguin Putnam
Named a Best Book of 2025 by NPR
â[A] funny, heartwrenching novel.â âPeople
âAÂ genuine pleasure to read.â âVogue
âFull of wildly astute, delectably thorny questions about love and loss and possession.â âMaggie Shipstead, New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle
From an Emmy Awardâwinning writer comes a funny, wise, heartbreaking story about a woman journeying into the unknown in the wake of sudden loss
When her first-love-turned-close-friend, Gabe, dies unexpectedly at twenty-nine, thirty-year-old Julia is launched into an intercontinental quest to recover his lost possessions. Her journey takes her from Los Angeles to London and into the murky realm of the past. It also sets Julia on a collision course with the last woman he loved, a guarded, self-possessed florist and restaurateur named Elizabeth, who insists on withholding Gabeâs beloved guitarâone of the departed indie rock musicianâs dearest belongingsâfor reasons Julia canât understand. Both women, it turns out, have something to hide, and soon ?nd themselves engaged in a complex dance of withholding and revelation. Â
An emotional mystery spanning years, continents, and relationship statuses,?Loved One introduces Aisha Muharrar as a novelist intimately attuned to the intricacies of love, memory, and ambiguous loss. What happens when we admit that the deepest feelings never die? How do we reconcile variousâand sometimes contradictoryâtruths about those closest to us? An engrossing and profoundly moving coming-of-age story with a powerful love at its heart,?Loved One is poised to become an instant classic.
