Written by the author of the 2016 best-selling novel The Nix, Oprah's 102nd book club pick, Wellness, tells the story of Jack and Elizabeth, two college students who fall in love at first sight. Over the years, the pair sees themselves and their world change in ways neither of them could have imagined. Leaping from the '90s Chicago grunge scene to the Flint Hills of Kansas to the detox-dieting suburbs, this is a love story like none other—one that continues long after "happily ever after," and captures the full, complicated, occasionally hilarious and always surprising path of a single relationship. Jack and Elizabeth must confront the ghosts of their past, the impossible projections of their future, and the ways technology can warp our view of ourselves and each other. "You're about to be taken for an incredible ride," said Oprah.
When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the nineties, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago's thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years, and now they're grappling with the routines of married life, the challenges of parenting, and the indignities of aging—not to mention cults of positive thinking, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook trolls, NIMBY protests, and something called Love Potion Number Nine.

For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to painful childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, they have to undertake separate personal excavations or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.

Moving from the gritty nineties Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home-renovation hysteria, Wellness mines the absurdities of technology and modern love to reveal profound, startling truths about intimacy and connection. In this follow-up to Hill's electric debut, Wellness reimagines the love story with a healthy dose of insight, irony, and heart.