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Lily King, the award-winning author of "Writers & Lovers" and "Euphoria," returns with her latest novel, "Heart the Lover" (to be published September 30 by Grove Press), about a young woman drawn into a complicated friendship with two male classmates in college. Years later, she must consider how those friendships, and her youthful decisions, still shape her life.

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You knew I'd write a book about you someday. You said once that I'd dredged up the whole hit parade minus you.

I'll never know how you'd tell it.

For me it begins

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