爱情小说《最好的我》

In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy* the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina.

But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen* events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on completely different paths.

Now, 25 years later, Collier and Cole are called back to Oriental for the funeral* of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance.

Neither has lived the life they imagined and neither can forget the passionate* first love that forever changed their lives.

As Collier and Cole carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew -- about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear -- was not as it seemed.

Forced to face painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?

defy 违抗

unforeseen 不可预见的

funeral 葬礼

passionate 热情的