About the author
Lily King is an American novelist whose books include Euphoria, Writers & Lovers, and the story collection Five Tuesdays in Winter. Her fiction is attentive to artistic work, desire, family, and the shape that memory gives to an earlier life.
Heart the Lover looks back on a college love triangle and follows its consequences into adulthood. The older narrator's knowledge changes the meaning of the youthful story without making the past feel settled.
Where to start
Start with Heart the Lover for King's novel about first love, literary ambition, and the different story that memory tells decades later.
