Two months later, however, Jesse calls Emma to say he is alive and coming home. She is building a life with the man she loves. Then she runs into Sam at a music store, and the old friends rekindle their connection. Roughly three years later, Emma has finally rebuilt her life after losing Jesse. Once she finally reconciles herself with the fact that her husband is not returning, she moves back to Acton to be with her family. At first, Emma refuses to believe he is dead. However, only a year after their wedding, Jesse disappears when his helicopter crashes over the North Pacific. Emma believes that she is happy and that her future will be defined by Jesse. They fall in love over the following months.Īfter high school, Emma and Jesse move away to California where they start their new life of adventure together.
They discover that they are both desperate to leave Acton and travel the world. They reveal their mutual feelings for one another. The experience grants them a point of connection. Emma and Jesse hide in the bushes, but are ultimately caught and brought to the station.
Just as they are striking up a conversation, the cops arrive. In her sophomore year, she finally gets to meet and talk to Jesse at a classmate's house party. Throughout high school, Emma harbors a crush on a swimmer named Jesse Lerner. She realizes it is time to be who she wants to be. She previously ignored Sam simply because Marie thought he was cute. When Emma begins to develop a friendship with one of her classmates and her parents' employees, a boy named Sam Kemper, Emma's outlook changes. Desperate to be different from her sister, Emma does everything in her power to hate everything Marie likes.
She is even excited about investing in the family business, a local bookstore called Blair Books. She lives with her parents, Colin and Ashley, and her older sister, Marie. The following guide adheres to a linear mode of explanation, and relies upon the present tense.Įmma Blair grows up with her family in Acton, Massachusetts. These structural distortions are in service of the narrative, and enact Emma's complex emotional experiences throughout the novel. The novel employs both the past and present tenses, and toys with conventional notions of linear time. Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel One True Loves is predominantly written from the main character Emma Blair's first person point of view. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Reid, Taylor Jenkins.
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