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This Used to Be Us

By Renée Carlino
This Used to Be Us by Renée Carlino digital book - Fable

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There are two sides to every love story—and every breakup. Get ready for an emotional roller coaster of family, marriage, and divorce that will have you both laughing and crying, from the bestselling author of Before We Were Strangers.
 
“Hilarious, unnervingly relatable, romantic, and heartbreaking in the best way.”—Julia Stiles

“This book is a gut-punch to the feels.”—Karina Halle, New York Times bestselling author

After twenty-two years together, Danielle and Alex are getting a divorce. Once fiercely in love, they can barely stand the sound of each other’s voice. Instead of shuttling the kids between two broken homes, Alex and Dani decide to share a nesting apartment while swapping days with their two teenage boys at the family home.

In the apartment, Dani and Alex, on their own, begin to reflect on the last two decades—why they fell in love and why the marriage fell, spectacularly, apart. With the newfound space and time, they are given a chance to rediscover their autonomous selves again. They both get back in the dating pool. Dani finds major success at work as a showrunner on her own TV project, while Alex faces the challenges of a new relationship.

Still, they find that they just can’t stay away from each other, and somehow, the distance allows them to remember (for the first time in years) what each used to love about the other. When a family crisis draws them back into each other’s orbit, Dani and Alex are once again put to the test, which leads to a dramatic conclusion that will have readers weeping.

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Loudly Crying Face“This broke me!! I listened to this and it was very good!”
Thinking Face“I enjoyed the character growth, and how the male lead changed and the way the female lead coped, however, there were just more words than necessary. There were some chunks of chapters that were meant to help you get to know the characters in their work lives that I just don’t think we really needed. I think the end of the book could’ve been about 40 pages sooner than it was and choosing to go the way the author did was in my opinion completely unnecessary would’ve belonged in another story altogether to have included that event much sooner in the book so that the reader could process it Instead of having it feel like on footnote.”

About Renée Carlino

Renée Carlino is a screenwriter and the bestselling author of Sweet Thing, Nowhere But Here, After the Rain, Before We Were Strangers, Swear on This Life, and Wish You Were Here, which was optioned for film with Julia Stiles directing. She lives in San Diego with her two sons.

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