by Peter Golden. (Find the Book)Award-winning journalist Golden's first novel resonates with the great experiences typical of a life love, sorrow, loss, lessons, resolutions. Gordon Meyers has 50-plus years of living to reflect on when we meet him struggling through deep snow drifts as he tries to reach his family's New Jersey cemetery plot. The first-person narrative weaves between the past and the present, depicting a young, idealistic Gordon and the present-day Gordon filled with fears, regrets, and the tiniest possibility of hope. Glenna Rising was a med student in the 1960s when Gordon met her and fell irrevocably in love with her wit, passion, and drive. But those qualities later served to break them apart. The sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic emotional dancing Gordon and Glenna engage in reads as honestly and accurately as any love story between two people who come together, come apart, then reconnect decades later. The repositioning of the characters between past and present never jars and should suit those who enjoy love stories along the lines of those by Nicholas Sparks and Sarah Pekkanen. --Booklist
