This month’s Romantic & Ruinous Book Club turns to Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. Few novels have asked harder questions about the nature of love, obsession, and what we are willing to endure in its name. Florentino Ariza waits 51 years, 9 months and 4 days for the woman he loves. He is, as someone who knows him well puts it, ugly and sad. But he is all love.

García Márquez writes, as the New York Times put it, "with impassioned control, out of a maniacal serenity." This is a novel about what it means to vow love forever and actually mean it, set against war, plague, and the slow devastation of time. It is also very funny. We have been wanting to bring this one to Romantic & Ruinous for a while, and June feels exactly right.

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