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A Novel
Penguin
August 2026
On Sale: July 21, 2026
ISBN: 0593655869
EAN: 9780593655863
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Fiction Literary | Coming of Age | Multicultural African-American
When her first boyfriend turned close friend, Gabe, dies suddenly at twenty-nine, thirty-year-old Julia launches into an intercontinental quest to recover his lost possessions. Traveling from Los Angeles to London and through her own past, her search seems to offer more questions than answers about Gabe and their shared history. It also sets Julia on a collision course with the last woman he loved, the guarded, self-possessed Elizabeth. Both Julia and Elizabeth, it turns out, have something to hide—and must confront what their mutual ex meant to them, and what they now mean to each other.
Written with crackling wit and deep compassion, Loved One introduces Aisha Muharrar as a novelist deeply attuned to the mysteries of love, memory, and intimacy. What happens when we admit that the deepest feelings never die? How do we reconcile the various—and sometimes contradictory—truths about our loved ones? An engrossing, transformative coming-of-age story with a complex and powerful love at its heart, Loved One is poised to become an instant classic.
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