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Every Story Is A Love Story

By Imbolo Mbue
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FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND PEN/FAULKNER AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES PICK FOR 2026 'A book of heartwrenching what ifs that will keep you guessing and thinking about loss, forgiveness, family and, yes, love' CHARMAINE WILKERSON 'Exquisite' MARCIA HUTCHINSON 'Heart-stopping' JACQUELINE WOODSON... Read More
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A tender, sweeping novel about the nature of mercy and the astonishing ways that love can bloom among ruins - from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers

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FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND PEN/FAULKNER AWARD WINNER

A NEW YORK TIMES PICK FOR 2026

'A book of heartwrenching what ifs that will keep you guessing and thinking about loss, forgiveness, family and, yes, love' CHARMAINE WILKERSON

'Exquisite' MARCIA HUTCHINSON

'Heart-stopping' JACQUELINE WOODSON

'Captivating' ANDREW SOLOMON

'A formidable storyteller' JONATHAN FRANZEN

'The envelope remained on the table, a bomb fashioned to go off in the ruins of his life.'

Wolo's universe ended in an instant when his pregnant wife Yoma was killed in a tragic car accident. Now, three years later, he has received a letter from Victoria, the woman who was behind the wheel.

His mother insists he destroy it. Their family pastor says it is the work of the devil. But Victoria is asking to meet. Her heart is broken, too.

Mind-expanding, life-affirming and full of hope, Every Story is a Love Story is about the nature of mercy, morality and the inexplicable mysteries of the human heart.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781837266654

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 January 2027

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Books

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 372g

Pages: 352

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About the Author

Imbolo Mbue is the author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was an Oprah's Book Club selection. The novel has been translated into eleven languages, adapted into an opera and a stage play, and has been optioned for film. Her sophomore novel How Beautiful We Were was picked as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times and Good Housekeeping, one to watch by Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and the Irish Independent and a most anticipated read by TIME, Goodreads and Bustle. Her short story 'A Reversal' was included in the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa edited by Margaret Busby. A native of Limbe, Cameroon and a graduate of Rutgers and Columbia universities, Imbolo Mbue lives in New York City.

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