The Truth About Parallel Lines
About the Book
It is 1981 in New York City. While celebrating her 18th birthday, Jenna Kessler tells a story that stays with her for the rest of her life.
Growing up in the shadow of an over-protective mother, Chloe Toberman finds freedom in the secrets that she keeps.
Deirdre Schein is a doctor, struggling to find her place in her family. Her quiet and stable life is both challenged and made richer by the demands of her flamboyant and unpredictable twin brother.
The Truth About Parallel Lines takes place over more than 30 years. It is the story of three women, love after loss, triumph over tragedy, and the friendships that sustain them.
Endorsements
The Group and The Best of Everything were the two books that made me want to be a writer. And here's Jill D. Block, clearly the long-lost bastard daughter of Mary McCarthy and Rona Jaffe, with The Truth About Parallel Lines. The story covers something like thirty years, and—just sayin'— I read it in one sitting.
– Jill Emerson, author of A Week as Andrea Benstock
The truth about this book is that Jill D. Block knows how to hook you from the start and whisk you across decades of lives hurtling toward destinies. This remarkably emotional and satisfying debut novel never falters. A journey populated by compelling characters that hit close to home, it’s great fun—and uncomfortable in all the right places.
– Tom Straw, New York Times bestselling author (as Richard Castle)
Her easy-going prose and linear structure act as a literary sleight-of-hand, hiding the complexity of one woman’s saga from college girl to middle-aged woman. Block manages to make the story of an ordinary life, rich with relationships that interweave, fray, connect and disconnect, but never quite run parallel, into something quite extraordinary.
– Sandra Block, author of What Happened That Night and Little Black Lies
Jill Block has a great ear for dialogue and a greater gift for how people feel in situations nearly invisible to the world outside but momentous to them. I was pulled deeply into the lives of all her characters and found myself hoping things would work out for each of them -- even when they were at odds with each other.
– SJ Rozan, author of Absent Friends
A story that spans decades and is loaded with memorable characters and cinematic prose, The Truth About Parallel Lines haunts you in the best possible way. Navigating the arc of friendship through good times and bad, Jill Block’s powerful debut makes itself known from the first page. Don’t miss it.
– Alex Segura, acclaimed author of Blackout
Charming and utterly engaging, Jill Block’s debut The Truth About Parallel Lines will make you laugh and cry as her characters follow their dreams and then entice you to meditate on the intersection of truth and fiction in your own life.
– Nina Solomon, author of Single Wife and The Love Book
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