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THEN, AGAIN
by Jaclyn Youhana Garver

THEN, AGAIN by Jaclyn Youhana Garver

Told in three different timelines, THEN, AGAIN follows Asha as she encounters her first love, Jason, as a teenager; meets her husband, Charlie, as a twenty-something; and then when fate has Jason enter her life once more a decade later, after her husband Charlie has been in a coma for over a year. A story that explores the definition and infinite variations of love, THEN, AGAIN was released by Lake Union Publishing on November 12, 2024.

Review Highlight

“[Garver’s] witty, touching, and sincere debut, a tale of unexpected connections, will delight fans of Amy Jo Burns’ Mercury, Beth Harbison's Confessions of the Other Sister, and Helen Fisher's Faye Faraway.” ―Booklist

Page Count: 335 pages

About the Book

A woman in the most challenging moment of her life faces impossible decisions in a poignant and deeply moving novel about love and loss, letting go, and moving on.

Asha’s husband, Charlie, isn’t dead, but he’s been gone just the same since the day his aneurysm trapped him in a coma. Everything that made him Charlie left this world a year ago for a limbo that has trapped Asha, too. She doesn’t want to stay in this situation, but she can’t bear to kiss the love of her life goodbye.

Luckily, she’s not alone. Asha has the support of her best friend, her father, and then, unexpectedly, Jason. Asha and Jason shared a tumultuous romance from junior high through her early college years, and he’s her first love. Now divorced, Jason wants to reconnect. For Asha, it feels weird. It feels wrong. But for now, it also feels kind of wonderful.

Exploring love―and its infinite variations―Then, Again, told through Asha’s eyes in the 1990s, 2000s, and today, deftly captures the choices made in the face of monumental loss and the power in memories of better things to carry us through impossible times.

About the Author

Jaclyn Youhana Garver is the author of the poetry collection The Men I Never:. Her poems have appeared in outlets including the Oakland Review, Poets Reading the News, trampset, and Prometheus Dreaming. She is a recovering journalist and works for the National Council for Marketing & Public Relations. Jaclyn lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with her spouse, Jeff. Find her on Instagram @jyogarver. For more information, visit www.jyogarver.com.