Like his previous novel Last Days of Summer, Almost Like Being in Love is an epistolary novel; the story is told primarily through diary entries, newspaper clippings, office documents, letters, e-mails, menus, post-it notes and checklists,[1] with only minor reliance on narrative.

[2] The book centers around the relationship between two men, Travis and Craig, who meet and fall in love in 1978, during their senior year of high school.

The two meet on the set of the school's production of Brigadoon, and the unlikely couple began a whirlwind romance.

Travis and Craig have fallen out of touch, and they both have strong careers and potential suitors.

Travis is the first to realize that his first love is his only true one, and he embarks on a cross-country journey, risks his job and enters the great unknown to try to get Craig back.