Rabih and Kirsten meet, fall in love, marry, buy a house, and have kids, yet this is no run-of-the-mill love story. Throughout, a philosopher interrupts the narrative to tell readers what's going on below the surface, and can say the unsayable: we are all, occasionally, terribly unlovable; we'd do well to consider the inner child informing our adult selves; and love is much more work and effort than the capital-R romantic ideals ever lead us to believe--adapted from Booklist review.
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