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Love Died Yesterday

Mario Marques

What do you do with a love story that never got the chance to live? Love Died Yesterday is not just a novel. It’s a haunting love letter to the women who once fell hard, who still remember the feeling of waiting for a phone call that never came, of reading a letter with shaking hands, of listening to a cassette that said everything words couldn’t. This is a book about what could have been — and what stays with us even when everything ends. It takes place in the early 1980s, a time when love was messy and sacred, when there were no phones to distract us, no social media to dull the ache, and no swipes to skip the pain. A STORY FOR WOMEN WHO STILL REMEMBER WHAT IT FELT LIKE TO LOVE WITHOUT SCREENS. TO FEEL WITHOUT FILTERS. TO BREAK WITHOUT BACKUP. The story unfolds across three cities — New York, Kansas City, and Nova Iguaçu, a city near Rio de Janeiro — but they all echo the same theme: The kind of love that arrives too soon… or too late. You’ll meet: 💔 PADDY, a quiet soul working at Tower Records in New York, who sends anonymous mixtapes to a woman he loves from afar. He never speaks to her. But through music, he tells her everything. 💔 GEDDY, a young man adrift in Kansas City, whose life begins to change the day he hears U2’s “Boy” — and starts to believe that music might be the map back to himself. 💔 FRANCO, a teenager in Brazil, who falls deeply in love with a married woman. Their glances become confessions. Their silences, promises. Until one afternoon… nothing will ever be the same again. This book will take you back to a world of: 🎧 Vinyl records and cassette tapes 📼 Atari consoles and handwritten letters 🎸 U2’s October. War. Boy. 🖤 And the kind of love that ruins you in the most beautiful way. LOVE DIED YESTERDAY is for the women who still cry at old songs. Who still replay conversations in their minds. Who still remember what it meant to fall completely. This isn’t about getting over it. It’s about remembering how much it mattered. Ready to feel something again? 👉 Read Love Died Yesterday now. And tell me if it doesn’t hurt… just like it used to.

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Laboratório Pop Books

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en

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