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They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.

They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.

Madden construye en Ex libris una narrativa de acertijos posmoderna que es a la vez lúdica y penetrante, y que lo acredita como uno de los grandes maestros visuales de la metaficción en el panorama actual. Estás mirando el volumen Ex libris de Matt Madden. Puede que hayas ido a buscarlo expresamente o que te hayas topado con él en una librería o en casa de alguien. O quizá estés leyendo esto en un catálogo en una pantalla. ¿Qué clase de aventura crees que tendrá lugar entre sus páginas? A juzgar por la cubierta y el título, parece que habla de libros. ¿Está protagonizado por un cómic? Si lo dejas ahora, jamás lo descubrirás. Sin duda, en algún rincón de tu mente se irán ramificando sin parar versiones imaginarias e hipotéticas del argumento. Si quieres descubrir lo que sucede en Ex libris, vas a tener que abrirlo y leer la primera página. Pero, cuidado, ¡podría atraparte!