Endless Love by Scott Spencer, 418 pages
At the age of seventeen, David burned down his girlfriend's house. It was no accident, but deliberate arson - a cry for attention born out of desperate need. He hoped the fire would end his month-long exile from her family and her bed, but instead it resulted in a two year stay in a mental institution and a court order barring him from contacting any member of the Butterfield family. But the power of David's passion is such that nothing will keep him from Jade - not his psychiatrist, not his parole officer, and definitely not her father.
It is a cliche that love - or, at least, erotic love - is a form of madness, and Spencer mercilessly exposes the truth behind the cliche. The mad love of David and Jade is truly "endless" - it smashes through all boundaries and consumes everything that is not itself, ultimately destroying two families. Spencer somehow manages to capture the qualities that make such endless love simultaneously fascinating and terrifying.
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