"Anyone who's ever fallen in love with someone others didn't approve of-whether it was your parents, your friends, or society itself-will feel something when they hear this story."
Pears weaves Salmina's recollections and Haskell's diaries into a seamless narrative, depicting a profound love story set against the backdrop of a complex Europe.
"I just remember being rushed from room to room, and I was just like, 'I have no idea what's going on,' and then just flashes of waking up and a bunch of people surrounding me."
But now air travel is one big grumble: it's degrading, everyone is ill-mannered and you used to get free peanuts in this country, but now the peanuts are not free.