Named a Best Book of 2025 by NPR and Newsweek ' A] funny, heartwrenching novel.' --People 'A genuine pleasure to read.' --Vogue 'Full of wildly astute, delectably thorny questions about love and loss and possession.' --Maggie Shipstead, New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle From an Emmy Award-winning writer comes a funny, wise, heartbreaking story about a woman journeying into the unknown in the wake of sudden loss When her first-love-turned-close-friend, Gabe, dies unexpectedly at twenty-nine, thirty-year-old Julia is launched into an intercontinental quest to recover his lost possessions. Her journey takes her from Los Angeles to London and into the murky realm of the past. It also sets Julia on a collision course with the last woman he loved, a guarded, self-possessed florist and restaurateur named Elizabeth, who insists on withholding Gabe's beloved guitar--one of the departed indie rock musician's dearest belongings--for reasons Julia can't understand. Both women, it