Publicity materials for “Heart the Lover” describe it as a novel about a romantic triangle, which strikes me as lazy and unworthy of this witty, insightful book. Yes, the triangle is absolutely writer ...

For a moment, I wondered if perhaps NAS had been fooled, publishing a work of gross misogyny that had been planted to humiliate them.

But “Heart the Lover” is about grief and family much more than it’s about whether Jordan, a novelist, will end up with one of two college sweethearts ... aware of how young Jordan viewed her romance ...