About the Book: A successful writer reflects on her defining love story-not with the husband she built a comfortable life with, but with Sam and Yash, the star students who swept her into an intoxicating world of intellectual passion during her senior year of college. Decades later, a surprise visit forces the past crashing into the present, compelling her to confront the choices and deceptions of her youth. A piercing, widely acclaimed novel about how first love shapes an entire lifetime, praised for its emotional clarity and depth.