After the Version of Us: A Novel in Linked Stories

She said his name out loud for the first time, and it came out wrong.Not a mistake. Easier than that. Like she'd been saying it for years - like some part of her had already decided something and was only now telling the rest of her.There was a city that wasn't hers. A window she walked straight to before she'd even taken off her shoes. A tree older than the building beside it. A sentence that got all the way to the edge of being said - and then didn't.For two years, that's the whole story. Not what happened. What almost did.After the Version of Us is told in 17 stories - hers, his, and people standing close enough to see what neither of them could. It circles the same two cities, the same unfinished sentence, from every angle except the one that would explain it.It ends on a street. A stranger. A woman holding hyacinths, and a choice the book won't make for her.She - That's where it stops. It never tells you what she does.