Serpents Tail This Is a Love Story The instant New York Times bestseller.

by Jessica Soffer

This Is a Love Story The instant New York Times bestseller ABISBOOK Serpents Tail.

Genres: Romance, Fiction

304 pages, Hardcover

Published February 6, 2025

About the author

Jessica Soffer is the author of This Is a Love Story and Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots. She grew up in New York City and earned her MFA at Hunter College where she was a Hertog Fellow. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Real Simple, Saveur, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She teaches creative writing to small groups and in the corporate space and lives in Sag Harbor, New York, with her family.

Reviews

[Mary · Rating 2 out of 5]

Abe and Jane spend fifty years circling each other and their careers; her art and his writing in New York City, with Central Park playing a bigger part then their own child and quietly witnessing the rise of their careers and the strain on their family. this couple because their so self absorbed in their own ambitions, their child seems invisible.
revealing a love story that is, flawed, and ultimately more about the lives they built then the family.
I would venture to say they would have had a beautiful marriage minus Max. Maybe then there wouldn’t have been natural betrayal, child isolation, and illness.

[Stephanie Williams · Rating 3 out of 5]

My favorite part of this book was the love story to Central Park. I found the love story between the two main characters to be annoying. I did not enjoy the sections of the book written in the “You remember” format. It was irritating. It wasn’t the content per se but the literary feature that bothered me. And I found the love story between mother and son to be heartbreaking. So many missed opportunities. It made me think but can’t say I loved it.

[Jessica O'Keefe · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a good story, but I didn't really like the format it was written in.

[Jenny · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wish I was the kind of person who could put a book on a DNF list.

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just not my preference on point of view to tell the story. Kinda felt all over. Took a bit to figure out who was even talking…
It does though help show the difference of views in the same moment.

[Pamela S · Rating 3 out of 5]

I couldn’t finish it, didn’t care for the format at all.

[Karen Castleberry]

Quit book! Just wasn’t for me.