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Author Description I'm on Goodreads a lot as a reader-- my author bio has always been a copy-paste of my Wikipedia. But now it seems like the right time and place to delete the old 3rd person official bio and add some backstory on my upcoming book FIRST LOVE LAST LOVE. (It's out November 3, and available now on NetGalley.)<br /><br />Growing up in a single-parent home in Rhode Island, I was often in my mother's Toyota Corolla as she juggled work with bank and grocery errands, plus three kids' dentist appointments and after-school activities. A lot of car time! Her go-to calm was music, so her glove box stacked with cassette tapes, including Dan Fogelberg's The Innocent Age. There was this one particular song about an old romance meetup-- years later in a grocery story on a winter night-- that absolutely gutted her. My little brothers and I never would have asked, but we knew this song was Not making her think about our dad. And every time she played it, she was lost to private old memories. I was probably writing that romance in my head even then.<br /><br />What happens when the great love of your life suddenly returns? How much of that first love is about the person, and how much of it is about who you used to be? And if that old song comes calling, do you stay inside the life you've carefully built, the one that makes sense, or risk it for the possibility of another self, another life?<br /><br />This story belongs to Vida and Elijah, but I think the pull of these choices belongs to everyone. Writing the book certainly made me think all about ambition and motherhood and marriage and regret, and all the younger selves we have to leave behind-- and I think that's one of the the things I enjoy most about writing-- you begin somewhere that feels so real and known, and then by the end, you've made something so unexpected, and a whole different space from where you began. <br />xA.<br /><br />website: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://www.adelegriffin.com">www.adelegriffin.com</a><br /><br /><br />Instagram:<br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/adelegriffin/?hl=en">https://www.instagram.com/adelegriffi...</a><br /><br />Facebook:<br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adele-Griffin/171580568358">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adele-G...</a><br /><br /><br />Open Road Media interview<br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSa3PB_L7Ms">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSa3P...</a><br /><br /><br />

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