Meg Howrey

"They're Going to Love You is my idea of a perfect book. It is about art, life, death, love, and family and it is beautifully and sharply written. I cried several times while reading it, and was sorry to let it go when I was done. I cannot recommend it enough." --Jami Attenberg A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles Carlisle Martin dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer just like her mother, Isabel, a former Balanchine ballerina. Since they live in Ohio, she only gets to see her father Robert for a few precious weeks a year when she visits Greenwich Village, where he lives in an enchanting apartment on Bank Street with his partner, James. Brilliant but troubled, James gives Carlisle an education in all that he holds dear in life--literature, music, and most of all, dance. Seduced by the heady pull of mentorship and the sophistication of their lives, Carlisle's aspiration to become a dancer herself blooms, born of her desire to be asked to stay at Bank Street, to be included in Robert and James' world even as AIDS brings devastation to their community. Instead, a passionate love affair creates a rift between them, with devastating consequences that reverberate for decades to come. Nineteen years later, Carlisle receives a phone call which unravels the fateful events of her life, causing her to see with new eyes how her younger self has informed the woman she's become. They're Going to Love You is a gripping and gorgeously written novel of heartbreaking intensity. With psychological precision and a masterfully revealed secret at its heart, it asks what it takes to be an artist in America, and the price of forgiveness, of ambition, and of love.

A Novel

They're Going to Love You

Kat Albanese

All pain is equal at the moment of suffering, but after that, suffering gets assigned seating.

The work of my life has been to ask undanceable questions, and find a way to make ballets out of them.

How do you get to have the humility to submit yourself to dance and also the ego to transcend it?

“There are certain poems you must read now, Carlisle, when they will make you feel seen. Later on they will make you feel invisible.”

I’ve discovered the pleasures of solitude and acquired the habit of loneliness. These are hard to give up.

LMAO, this is the epigraph, opening quote by another author (Henry James) and I'm already like "wowwwwww."

Andre Bohrer

And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.

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