Nineteen-year-old Pablo Neruda Rind is working in an upscale health food store in New York CIty when pop star Leanna Smart rushes in and turns his life upside-down.
Mary H. K. Choi Bücher
Mary H.K. Choi bringt ihren Hintergrund als Redakteurin und Journalistin in ihr Schreiben ein und bietet eine scharfe Perspektive auf zeitgenössische Kultur und Beziehungen. Ihre Arbeit befasst sich mit der Komplexität moderner Verbindungen und untersucht oft, wie Technologie persönliche Interaktionen und Identität prägt. Chois Stil zeichnet sich durch einen frischen und doch aufschlussreichen Ansatz bei den Herausforderungen des Erwachsenwerdens und der Suche nach dem eigenen Platz in der Welt aus. Die Leser verbinden sich mit ihrer authentischen Darstellung von Emotionen und den Schwierigkeiten, das junge Erwachsenenalter zu meistern.
“Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book.” —Rainbow Rowell From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory—perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind. Sam’s stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him. When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch—via text—and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.
