A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK
AN INSTANT
NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER
From #1
New York Times
bestselling author Rainbow Rowell comes
Slow Dance—
her smartest, funniest, most
powerful
novel yet
“If you, like me, think thirty-somethings methodically working through their issues is very hot,
Slow Dance
is the book for you. The people in it feel like people you know or maybe even people you’ve been.
is sexy, sweet, wise, and nostalgic—Jane Austen’s
Persuasion
for our times.”
— Gabrielle Zevin,
bestselling author of
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Shiloh Butler was supposed to get out of north Omaha.
She used to sit out on the front porch with her best friend, Cary, and plot their escape. Shiloh was going to be an actress – she had a scholarship to a good school – and Cary was laser-focused on the Navy. Sharp, stoic, golden-eyed Cary . . . thin as a stick of gum and poor as dirt. He was probably the most decent person Shiloh has ever known. She hasn’t spoken to him in fourteen years.
When Shiloh gets an invitation to a high school friend’s wedding, Cary is the first and only thing on her mind.
She desperately wants to see him again, but she doesn’t know if she can bear being seen
by
him. What would Cary think of Shiloh at thirty-three? A divorced mom living in the same house she grew up in. Someone who works behind a desk, not onstage.
Would Cary even
want
to see Shiloh after all this time? After
everything
?
The answer, it turns out, is yes.
In her triumphant return to adult fiction, Rainbow Rowell has written a love story so honest and human – so
cathartic
– you’ll feel it in your bones.
is a power ballad of a book, brimming with Rowell’s signature compassion and wit. It’s deeply affecting and
profoundly
romantic.