Anywhere You Go

A house swap leads to dual love stories in this queer contemporary romance. Small-town waitress Tatum Ward has no interest in staying home to meet the half-brother whose existence recently revealed her father’s infidelity, so she jumps at the chance to temporarily swap houses with New Yorker Eleanor Chapman, who is herself trying to escape a romantic and career implosion. In Tatum’s Midwestern town, Eleanor’s impulsive hookup with one of Tatum’s siblings, the nonbinary Carson, leads to emotional entanglement. Meanwhile in NYC, an encouraging older neighbor pushes Tatum to act on her long-standing crush on friend June. Tatum and Eleanor have both experienced family-related traumas that make it hard for them to accept love as adults, but the novel remains fairly lighthearted, sprinkled with classic rom-com elements like aspirational careers (Broadway press agent, mural artist-slash-furniture creator, perfumer) and luxurious homes. Nancy Meyers didn’t invent the idea of swapping houses and finding love, but enough specific details carry over to make this novel a clear pastiche of The Holiday.