I'm Glad About You

The pathos of Beautiful Ruins meets the hilarity of Crazy Rich Asiansin this comedic and tender novel.

Their meeting in a parking lot outside a high school football game was both completely forgettable and utterly life-changing. Because no matter how you look at it, it is piss-poor luck to meet the love of your life before your life has even started. Fierce and ambitious, Alison is determined to shed her midwestern roots and emerge an actress. Kyle, all heart and spiritual yearning, believes medicine can heal the world. What could these mismatched souls have to do with each other? Everything and nothing. Even as their fates rocket them forward and apart, neither can fully let go of the past.

When Alison gets her lucky break in New York City, she ends up on the fast track to stardom and a world far more different from Cincinnati than she could have ever imagined. Back home in Ohio, Kyle has a shotgun wedding and starts a pediatric practice in suburban hell. While Kyle's dreams begin to molder, Alison learns that the spotlight is always circled by shadows. As their lives inevitably intersect, Alison and Kyle must face each other in the revealing light of their decisions.I'm Glad About You is a glittering study of how far the compromises two people make will take them from the lives they were meant to live.

In 2011 Theresa Rebeck was named one of the 150 Fearless Women in the World byNewsweek. She has had more than a dozen plays produced in New York, includingOmnium Gatherum (cowriter), for which she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, andThe New York Times has referred to her as “one of her generation’s major talents.” She was the creator of the NBC dramaSmash and has a long history of producing and writing for major television and film successes. She is the author ofThree Girls and Their Brother (2008) and Twelve Rooms with a View (2010). She has taught at Brandeis University and Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her family.