Love Like This

Written by Cynthia Newberry Martin

Narrated by Cynthia Newberry Martin

For the first time in a lifetime, Angelina and Will can choose again. After 22 years with children at home, she has no idea what she wants, and is counting on the empty house to figure it out. But he already knows—he wants her, all to himself. Nine days into their child-free life, he announces he’s been fired and is home to stay. So Angelina announces she’s returning to nursing, this time in home health care.

In his new basement workroom, Will enjoys making boxes, but the quiet house sends him in search of music, where he meets Stella, who reveals more than the magic of iPods.

Meanwhile, Angelina's first patient is an unpredictable woman named Lucy who reveals a particular magic of her own, as does her billboard-painting son John Milton. As Angelina and Will’s life together becomes increasingly tense and their days apart become increasingly comfortable, it looks like Will may be the one to get the empty house.

Love Like This drops you inside a long-term marriage, where you’ll be screaming either stay or go—as you weigh the value of sticking with the familiar versus the value of venturing into the unknown.

©2023 Cynthia Newberry Martin (P)2023 Cynthia Newberry Martin

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cynthia Newberry Martin
• Release date: Mar 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9798368948720

Cynthia Newberry Martin

Cynthia Newberry Martin writes about marriage. About how characters navigate between separateness and togetherness. About their need for both time to themselves and time together. About what compromise does to a person's sense of self. Her first novel, Tidal Flats, was published in September 2019. Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Hunger Mountain, Brevity, Gargoyle, Contrary Magazine, Clapboard House, Storyglossia, Numéro Cinq and other places. For a number of years, she served as the Review Editor for Contrary Magazine and the Writing Life Editor for Hunger Mountain. In 2012 she graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts with an MFA in Creative Writing. Later that year, she was awarded a residency at Ragdale. In 2013, she became a founding board member of the literary nonprofit Writing by Writers. In 2009, she began the How We Spend Our Days series on her blog. There are now over a decade of essays from over a hundred writers on how each one spent one of their days. Currently, she spends her days in Columbus, GA, with her husband, and in Provincetown, MA, in a little house by the water. For more about cynthia and her writing, please check out her website at www.cynthianewberrymartin.com