Last summer, author Rainbow Rowell’s nostalgic, childhood friends-to-lovers novel Slow Dance hit shelves (going on to become the August 2024 pick for Reese’s Book Club). Now, fans can look forward to adding a beautiful, brand-new paperback edition of this new adult romance to their shelves next month!
As unboxed by Rowell in a recent Instagram post, this new paperback edition features red sprayed edges with a design by Jim Tierney (who also worked on the illustrations for Rowell’s Simon Snow trilogy and Scattered Showers).
Slow Dance summary:
“Shiloh Butler was supposed to get out of north Omaha.
She used to sit out on the front porch with her best friend, Cary, and plot their escape. Shiloh was going to be an actress – she had a scholarship to a good school – and Cary was laser-focused on the Navy. Sharp, stoic, golden-eyed Cary . . . thin as a stick of gum and poor as dirt. He was probably the most decent person Shiloh has ever known. She hasn’t spoken to him in fourteen years.
When Shiloh gets an invitation to a high school friend’s wedding, Cary is the first and only thing on her mind.
She desperately wants to see him again, but she doesn’t know if she can bear being seen by him. What would Cary think of Shiloh at thirty-three? A divorced mom living in the same house she grew up in. Someone who works behind a desk, not onstage.
Would Cary even want to see Shiloh after all this time? After everything?
The answer, it turns out, is yes.”
The new paperback edition of Slow Dance, which is now available for pre-order, will release on June 3.
You can read our review of Slow Dance here.
