The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central)
Two former high-school sweethearts return to their hometown for the funeral of a mentor and confront the choices they've made since they last met, in this new novel from the author of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe.
The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she enrolls in a semiotics course and falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Morten, a time which is complicated by the resurfacing of man who is obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides.
The Train of Small Mercies by David Rowell (Putnam)
While a young black porter struggles with first-day duties on board the Robert F. Kennedy funeral train, a woman sneaks away from her disapproving husband to pay respects to the assassinated senator, and a wounded soldier awaits a reputation-restoring interview.
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