{"product_id":"it-wasnt-love-edwin-alverio-9798277642641","title":"It Wasn't Love...: An Intimate Archive of My Silences","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt wasn't love. At least, not the kind that gets a label.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt Wasn't Love... An Intimate Archive of My Silences\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of autofiction stories about the quiet forms of care that rarely make it into love songs: a home economics teacher who turns tenderness into a secret syllabus, a boss who learns to surrender control for a single night, a divorced mother who meets a stranger at the boardwalk in Ponce, a religious woman who only finds peace with her ear pressed to another chest, friends who become shelter when life rewrites their plans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach story begins with the same refrain-\u003ci\u003e\"It wasn't love.\"\u003c\/i\u003e From there, the book maps a different kind of intimacy: \u003cbr\u003enot grand declarations, but shared coffee, motel rooms that feel like temporary chapels, bunk beds turned into truces, phone calls that last until sunrise, and small objects saved in a box like an archive of heartbeats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in a clear, breathing prose shaped by both Spanish and English, these pieces move between Puerto Rico and Connecticut, between youth and middle age, between desire and silence. Names, dates, and places are veiled, but the emotions are not. What remains on the page is what lingers after romance fades: gesture, presence, the courage to be vulnerable for a moment and then let go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will resonate with readers who: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre drawn to \u003cb\u003eautofiction and literary memoir\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnjoy intimate, character-driven narratives about \u003cb\u003edesire, aging, divorce, and friendship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppreciate stories where \u003cb\u003esmall scenes-coffee, a car, a hallway, a seawall-hold entire lives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eHave ever kept their own \"archive\" of objects from relationships that never had a proper name\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt its core, \u003ci\u003eIt Wasn't Love...\u003c\/i\u003e is a testimony to the quiet ways we care for one another and the traces those encounters leave on the body. It is a book about shelter-about the nights when simply being there is all that's needed, and enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edwin Alverio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798277642641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d","brand":"Edwin Alverio","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997342544127,"sku":"9798277642641","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/it-wasnt-love-edwin-alverio-9798277642641","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}