“Sweethearts” by Sara Zarr

There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.

—Sara Zarr in Sweethearts

I don't want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick—even the bad ones.

—Sara Zarr in Sweethearts

About Sara Zarr

Sara Zarr (born October 3, 1970) is an American writer. She was raised in San Francisco, and now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband. Her first novel, Story of a Girl, was a 2007 National Book Award finalist. She has subsequently had nine novels published.

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