THE GOOD PARTS
An epic, unforgettable love story about a woman who takes a memory-erasing pill and the man she once loved who returns as a stranger, hoping to make her fall for him all over again—for fans of One Day and In Five Years.
When Landon receives a letter from Rose—the woman he once planned forever with—he learns their love story is over. She’s undergone a radical memory-erasing treatment, leaving behind her grief, her past… and him. But Landon can’t bear to lose the love of his life. If she fell for him once,
An epic, unforgettable love story about a woman who takes a memory-erasing pill and the man she once loved who returns as a stranger, hoping to make her fall for him all over again—for fans of One Day and In Five Years.
When Landon receives a letter from Rose—the woman he once planned forever with—he learns their love story is over. She’s undergone a radical memory-erasing treatment, leaving behind her grief, her past… and him. But Landon can’t bear to lose the love of his life. If she fell for him once, couldn’t she fall for him again?
Now living in Edinburgh, Rose’s world is a blank canvas, and she’s dating someone new. When Landon reenters her life as a stranger, they become fast friends, their lives entwining once more. But what Rose doesn’t know is that this new friend carries the weight of everything they once shared: their firsts, their marriage, and the heartbreak they barely survived. And when she starts exhibiting strange symptoms, it becomes clear their history isn’t gone—it’s just buried. And remembering could come at a devastating cost.
Told in alternating timelines—his from the present, hers from the past—The Good Parts is an achingly poignant story about the people we become across a lifetime, and the beauty of finding our way with what remains.
- Grand Central Publishing
- Hardcover
- July 2026
- 352 Pages
- 9781538780329
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About Evann Normandin
Evann Normandin earned her BA in English and Theater from Middlebury College and her MSc in English, with a focus on traumatic memory, from the University of Edinburgh. Her work has been published in Broadway World, Rewire News, Slush Magazine, and The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. Evann lives outside Boston with her son and husband, who inspired the love story (but only the good parts). The Good Parts is her debut.
Praise
“I loved The Good Parts. Loved the way I knew something life-altering was coming―yet it kept me guessing. Loved the characters, who burrowed into my dreams at night. And most of all, loved the reminder that what breaks us and puts us back together with all our hairline cracks is what makes us human.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“I tore through The Good Parts until its last page rendered me speechless. This is a staggering portrait of the pain and glory of enduring love, and a story you won’t soon forget.” —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“A gripping, luminous love story that trusts the reader. The Good Parts is intimate, aching, and quietly profound—proof that romance can be both devastating and deeply wise.” —Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of Love and Other Words
“The Good Parts is a deeply moving account of how love endures through time, tragedy and forgetting. Evann Normandin is a talented writer who brings achingly real characters to the page—Rose and Landon are two I won’t soon forget.” —Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics
“What a complete gem this novel is. I became deeply, maybe even irrationally, invested in Landon and Rose’s story; how it started, how it ended, everything that happened in between and what’s next in their journey. Normandin has conjured a BIG love, conveyed in hundreds of small, beautiful moments. And the speculative angle—a most provocative what if? —had just the right light, intriguing touch. It was love at first read for me and The Good Parts, and I’m betting literary sparks will fly for many, many other readers, too.” —Christine Pride, author of GMA Book Club pick We Are Not Like Them