Slow Dance: A Reese's Book Club Pick, Perfect for Fans of Lost Love Stories and Second Chance Romance

Slow Dance: A Reese's Book Club Pick, Perfect for Fans of Lost Love Stories and Second Chance Romance

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell comes Slow Dance— her smartest, funniest, most powerful contemporary romance novel yet “If you, like me, think thirty-somethings methodically working through their issues is very hot, Slow Dance is the book for you. The people in it feel like people you know or maybe even people you’ve been. Slow Dance is sexy, sweet, wise, and nostalgic—Jane Austen’s Persuasion for our times.”    — Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Shiloh Butler was supposed to get out of north Omaha. She used to sit out on the front porch with her best friend, Cary, and plot their escape. Shiloh was going to be an actress – she had a scholarship to a good school – and Cary was laser-focused on the Navy. Sharp, stoic, golden-eyed Cary . . . thin as a stick of gum and poor as dirt. He was probably the most decent person Shiloh has ever known. She hasn’t spoken to him in fourteen years. When Shiloh gets an invitation to a high school friend’s wedding, Cary is the first and only thing on her mind. She desperately wants to see him again, but she doesn’t know if she can bear being seen by him. What would Cary think of Shiloh at thirty-three? A divorced mom living in the same house she grew up in. Someone who works behind a desk, not onstage. Would Cary even want to see Shiloh after all this time? After everything ? The answer, it turns out, is yes. In her triumphant return to adult fiction, Rainbow Rowell has written a second chance romance so honest and human – so cathartic – you’ll feel it in your bones. Slow Dance is as sharp and compassionate as you’d expect from Rowell. Deeply, profoundly romantic, it’s a power ballad of a book—a modern-day Persuasion retelling that will stay with you. “A gorgeous book. Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell is a beautiful, believable love story between two slightly broken people. It was so sweet , but never sentimental. I yearned for them to be happy, and I miss it now it’s over.” - International bestselling author Marian Keyes “Fans of Rainbow Rowell may already know her signature style: Her books will make you gasp with recognition, laugh along with the characters' hijinks and probably leak a tear or two as they figure themselves out.” - People “Witty, insightful and uncompromising, Rainbow Rowell’s  Slow Dance  is an emotionally charged and beautifully real romance.” - BookPage “If you, like me, think thirty-somethings methodically working through their issues is very hot, Slow Dance is the book for you. The people in it feel like people you know or maybe even people you’ve been. Slow Dance is sexy, sweet, wise, and nostalgic – Jane Austen’s Persuasion for our times.” - Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow “Rowell does longing like nobody’s business. She pits epic love against relatable, painful foibles. …Chapters that dip back in time play to Rowell’s strength writing the confused passions of teenagers and show just how long these two have been absolutely gone for each other. Readers will be desperate to see them work it out. A treat for fans of Rowell and of realistic romance.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Readers who enjoyed Landline and Eleanor & Park will be glad to return to Rowell’s unique storytelling style and lyrical prose... It’s guaranteed to make hearts flutter, likely while bringing tears to readers’ eyes.” - Library Journal “With tenderness and charm, Slow Dance describes what happens when someone finds their person, within a life and in a place where they'd rather not be, and how moving forward from calcified hurt is possible, given the brevity of life.” - Shelf Awareness “Rowell takes her time revealing the couple's origins as high-school besties, the conflicts they helped each other through as teens in working-class families and those they're dealing with now, the long period of silence between them, and the undeniable glimmers of their enduring mutual attraction. Their dance is sweet and sexy, and Rowell draws out the whole, simmering affair as she ping-pongs through her characters' past and present. . . . [ Slow Dance  is] sure to be a crowd-pleaser.” - Booklist (starred review) “The funny, wised-up dialogue, the tumultuous, sweet, and sexy love story is grade-A Rowell . . . a book that readers will find almost impossible to put down.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Carry On “Perfectly mixing sweet romance with deliciously tart wit, Rowell’s literary debut is a complete charmer.” - Chicago Tribune on Attachments "Rich, real, and emotionally raw, this satisfying contemporary is sure to impress."  - Publishers Weekly “Who can deny the absolute, dizzy pleasure of loving a novel so much that you cannot bear to put it down, that you want to do nothing but keep flipping pages, that you want to