Rage-cry later in the privacy of your bedroom while listening to The Smiths. Punch her disgusto, knuckle-dragging, pervert father in the face.ģ. Possible reactions to Madison Chandler calling your mom a slut:Ģ. The taller of the two girls glared pointedly at Penny’s mom, who was chatting with Madison’s father a few feet away. Madison Chandler leaned in close, mouth smiling, beady eyes narrowed. Penny knew that whatever Madison Chandler was going to say, she wasn’t going to enjoy it. 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, you know, see each other. When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. 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. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. It’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind. Now Penny is heading to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she’d somehow landed a boyfriend, they never managed to know much about each other. 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.įor Penny Lee, high school was a total nonevent. I loved this book.” -Rainbow Rowellįrom debut author Mary H.K. “Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages.
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