And it occurred to Owen that there was something deeply flawed about this, that there should be circles or angels or turns, anything that might make it possible for the two lines to meet again. “If you were to draw a map of the two of them, of where they started out and where they would both end up, the lines would be shooting away from each other like magnets spun around on their poles. There was distance between them, both emotional and physical, but they still thought of each other and they still held a tiny hope that one day they would see each other again. I wish we would still do that, because happiness can take the form of such small gestures.īut the most beautiful thing (for me) is the way they gravitated towards each other, no matter what. The postcards were meaningful and cute, they made me want to pick one too and send it to someone I care about.

They didn’t have it easy, both had problems form the past that needed to be overcome, for them to be happy again. Then, there are all those insights inside their lives, their personal struggles with their families or the friends they make while moving around. Their feelings about the places they visited/lived in were so different and so beautifully portrayed. Starting with their first meeting in the elevator, or their second time in San Francisco, even with its fiasco ending. There was so much I loved about this book: “How long could a single night really be expected to last? How far could you stretch such a small collection of minutes? He was just a boy on a roof. The Geography of You and Me is mostly descriptive – it shows snippets of moments suspended in time, it describes deep emotions, and still the author managed to ‘ show‘ not simply to ‘ tell‘ and I was soon very much in love with the beauty of this story. This book is sweet, it is fun and it also has a deep side of it that can easily touch one’s heart. I fell in love with Jennifer’s writing in “ The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight” and I might love this one even better.

This is in fact what I like about reading, in general – because it takes me through so many emotions in only a few hours: it’s addictive, it’s beautiful, and it’s all I ever want… And so is this book. You know, those books that make me smile until my face hurts, but that can also make my soul ache just a little bit. You might have noticed by now that I love emotional stories.

The geography of you and me