Here One Moment

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of Big Little Lies Apples Never Fall and The Husband’s Secret comes a moving novel of love marriage family and trying to find certainty in a fragile world. “A riveting story so wild you don’t know how she’ll land it and then she does on a dime.”—Anne Lamott AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Life is full of twists and turns you never see coming. But what if you did? The plane is jam-packed. Every seat is taken. So of course the flight is delayed! Flight attendant Allegra Patel likes her job—she’s generally happy with her life even if she can’t figure out why she hooks up with a man she barely speaks to—but today is her twenty-eighth birthday. She can think of plenty of things she’d rather be doing than placating a bunch of grumpy passengers. There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C who is compulsively checking his watch des