Ridge’s deafness doesn’t impede their relationship or their music. She finds out after the fact that Ridge already has a long-distance girlfriend, Maggie-and that he's deaf. The two begin a songwriting partnership that grows into something more once Sydney dumps Hunter and decides to crash with Ridge and his two roommates while she gets back on her feet. While music student Sydney is watching her neighbor Ridge play guitar on his balcony across the courtyard, Ridge is watching Sydney’s boyfriend, Hunter, secretly make out with her best friend on her balcony. Hoover is a master at writing scenes from dual perspectives. Sydney and Ridge make beautiful music together in a love triangle written by Hoover ( Losing Hope, 2013, etc.), with a link to a digital soundtrack by American Idol contestant Griffin Peterson. Graham and Quinn may or may not become parents, but if they don’t talk about their feelings, they won’t remain a couple, either.įinding positivity in negative pregnancy-test results, this depiction of a marriage in crisis is nearly perfect. With a few well-timed silences, Hoover turns the fairly common problem of infertility into the more universal problem of poor communication. Instead, she hopes the contents of a mystery box she’s kept since their wedding day will help her decide their fate. But just when Quinn’s narrative starts to sound like she’s writing a long Facebook rant about her struggles, she reveals the larger issue: Ever since she and Graham have been trying to have a baby, intimacy has become a chore, and she doesn’t know how to tell him. Quinn’s bad relationship with her wealthy mother also prevents her from asking for more money to throw at the problem. In the now, she’s exhausted a laundry list of fertility options, from IVF treatments to adoption, and the silver lining is harder to find. Back then, Quinn’s bad breakup leads her to the love of her life. The “then and now” format-with alternating chapters moving back and forth in time-allows a hopeful romance to blossom within a dark but relatable dilemma.
A few years later, they are happily married but struggling to conceive. Quinn meets her future husband, Graham, in front of her soon-to-be-ex-fiance’s apartment, where Graham is about to confront him for having an affair with his girlfriend. Named for an imperfectly worded fortune cookie, Hoover's ( It Ends with Us, 2016, etc.) latest compares a woman’s relationship with her husband before and after she finds out she’s infertile.
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