This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer — full book breakdown including genre, page count, audiobook length and narrator, publisher’s synopsis, content notes, author bio, and additional reader notes. Includes direct links to Goodreads, The Storygraph, and featured book lists. Everything you need to know before you read.
This Is a Love Story
Jessica Soffer
Overview: This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer
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Book Details: This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer
Genre: Literary Fiction
Page Count: 304 Pages (Hardcover)
Audiobook Length: 8 Hours
Narrator: Marin Ireland
Publisher: Dutton (Penguin Random House)
Publication Date: February 4, 2025
Featured In: Celebrity Book Club Picks – Read With Jenna (February 2025)
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Publisher’s Description of This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer
An intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the sacrifices we make for both.
For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now.
Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew—their courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives—and the parts they didn’t always want to know—the determined young student of Abe’s looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood, and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs. Told in various points of view, even in conversation with Central Park, these voices weave in and out to paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself.
An homage to New York City, to romance, and even to loss, This Is a Love Story tenderly and suspensefully captures deep truths about life and marriage in radiant prose. It is about love that endures despite what life throws at us, or perhaps even because of it.
This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer is published by Dutton (Penguin Random House).
Content Notes: This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer
This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer includes content that may be sensitive, emotional, or potentially distressing for some readers, including themes of death, cancer, miscarriage, mental health struggles, among others. For more detailed information, reader-submitted content notes are available on The StoryGraph.
Who This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer Is Perfect For
This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer is perfect for readers who gravitate toward introspective, literary love stories that unravel slowly and ache quietly. This Is a Love Story explores not just romantic love, but grief, loneliness, and the quiet ways people find their way back to one another. If you appreciate emotionally intelligent fiction in the vein of Ann Patchett or Hanya Yanagihara—where character, voice, and longing carry more weight than plot—this one will stay with you.
About the Author: Jessica Soffer
Jessica Soffer is the author of This Is a Love Story and Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots. She grew up in New York City and earned her MFA at Hunter College where she was a Hertog Fellow. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Real Simple, Saveur, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She teaches creative writing to small groups and in the corporate space and lives in Sag Harbor, New York, with her family (Goodreads, 2025).
Learn more about Jessica Soffer’s books, biography, and latest releases on her official website.
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