They're Going to Love You

About This Audiobook

Meg Howrey’s *They're Going to Love You* is a razor-sharp coming-of-age novel that moves between 1980s New York’s ballet scene and modern-day Los Angeles with the precision of a choreographer’s plié. At its core, it’s a story about ambition, loss, and the way art demands everything from you—even when you’re not ready to give it. Howrey threads together the glittering world of professional dance with the gritty realities of the AIDS crisis, using both as backdrops for a deeply personal story about a young man whose father is a ballet star living with the disease. The prose is taut, the emotions raw, and the pacing relentless, pulling you into the orbit of a family caught between obsession and survival. If you’ve ever loved someone who loved something more than you, this book will haunt you. If you’ve ever wondered what it costs to pursue perfection, it will break you—and then stitch you back together wrong on purpose, just like a poorly mended pointe shoe.

The narration is where this audiobook truly shines: Howrey’s own voice lends an unnerving authenticity to the story, her delivery shifting seamlessly between the clipped urgency of a dancer’s inner monologue and the weary resignation of a man watching his father waste away. The production is crisp, the pacing flawless, and the emotional beats land with the weight of a dancer’s grand jeté—controlled, precise, and impossible to look away from. This isn’t just a book about ballet; it’s a book about the bodies we inhabit and the ones we leave behind, about the love we cling to and the ones we have to let go. If you’re looking for a story that moves like a symphony and stings like a slap, this is it.