Recalculating by Jennifer Weiner Read Free Book Online

funny?” asked Sam. The Halloween decorations in the shop windows had been replaced with crepe-paper turkeys, and the weather, in the last week, had turned cold.
    “What’s that?” said Maureen. She had Band-Aids on three of her fingers—collateral damage from when she’d used the razor. A small price to pay, she thought, for what she’d done. She was free now, maybe for the first time since she’d met Tommy. Free.
    “That GPS you had. That Ouija.” Sam pronounced it
Wee-jer.
“I looked all over the Internet, but I couldn’t find it anywhere.”
    “Oh, I bet it came from China,” said Maureen. “Tommy was always bringing home weird stuff like that.” She put her credit card back in her wallet. “He traveled, you know.”
    “Oh, yeah?” Sam sounded mildly interested, but he was probably just being polite.
    “Oh, yes,” said Maureen. “Farther than you’d think.” On the first of November, as twilight had ripened into darkness, she’d driven on to the Bucks County Community College, following the direction of the new GPS she’d bought online. Tommy’s friend John held office hours from four to six on Mondays. A few guttural words in his ear in ancient Aramaic, words she’d found by tracing the twisted paths and thorny byways ofher husband’s cached Internet history, which he had thoughtfully left uncleared, and John had dropped to the floor like he’d been kneecapped. A stroke or a heart attack, they’d probably call it. You could tell the man didn’t take care of himself. Just look at his teeth.
    “Anyhow,” Maureen said to Sam, “I got rid of the Ouija.”
    “You did?” Sam followed her out to her car with his arms full of her clothes, and once the clothes had been stowed away, she showed him her brand-new Garmin.
    “That other one, the customer service wasn’t so great. But I got used to it, you know? Having someone … ”
tell me what to do
, she almost said, but she stopped. Once she might have been a woman who liked people telling her what to do, but those days were over.
Over forever,
she thought. “Having someone talk to me while I drive,” she said instead. “I’ve been thinking about taking some trips. Doing some traveling myself. You never know.”
    Sam nodded, rubbing his hands on his pants. You never do. So that’d be your recommendation? If I was to get one for my wife?”
    “Absolutely. I’ll bet she’ll love it,” said Maureen … and she smiled.
    “Have a treat,” said Sam, offering her the orange pumpkin bucket filled with Halloween candy.
    Maureen took two.

What if the one you love is the one who got away?
    Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are just eight years old when they meet late one night in an ER waiting room. Born with a congenital heart defect, Rachel is a veteran of hospitals, and she's intrigued by the boy who shows up all alone with a broken arm. He tells her his name. She tells him a story. After Andy’s taken back to a doctor and Rachel’s sent back to her bed, they think they’ll never see each other again.
    Rachel grows up wanting for nothing in a fancy Florida suburb, the popular and protected daughter of two doting parents. Andy grows up poor in Philadelphia with a single mom and a rare talent that will let him become one of the best runners of his generation.
    Over the next three decades, their paths cross in magical and ordinary ways. They make grand plans and dream big dreams as they grow together and apart in starts and stops. Through it all, Andy and Rachel never stop thinking about that night in the hospital waiting room all of those years ago, a chance encounter that changed the course of both of their lives.
    In this captivating, often witty tale about the bonds between women and men, love and fate, and the truth about happy endings, Jennifer Weiner delivers two of her most memorable characters and a love story you’ll never forget.
    Read on for a sneak peek at Jennifer Weiner’s newest novel, Who Do You Love
    Available August 2015