Excellent book, as long as you buy into the doggedness of the main male character, Zeke. Zeke, though it's never spelled out, is autistic, probably has Asperger's Syndrome. His parents are greengrocers and want him to take over the shop now that he's approaching 30. He wants nothing to do with it; he enjoys his handyman jobs. His life is far from 'normal' but it fits him fairly well.
He's busy painting in a house whose owners are out of town on holiday when their visibly-pregnant niece shows up at the front door ready to spend the night. Of course, she's really not their niece, and he knows something isn't quite right, but he is taken by this strong but needy woman and she does spend the night. Then she disappears.
He can't forget her. He knows they have a connection and he is determinded to hold on to that connection no matter what. No matter if his father has just had a heart attack, his mother is intent on running off with her lover, his business is going to suffer...no matter, in fact, that he is terrified of flying and ends up flying to America on the basis of a 2 minute phone call from Verona.
It's quite a weird book, yes, but once I got inside Zeke's (and to a lesser extent, Verona's) head, all the choices they make are perfectly in character. I'd call this kind of book Literate Chick Lit.
[Autism is clearly the current Darling of the Literary World--I've read or heard about dozens of books on the subject in the past couple of years.]
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