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Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. ChoiISBN: 1534408967
on March 27th 2018
Pages: 400
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EMERGENCY CONTACT
By Mary H.K. Choi
Published by Simon & Schuster
In Stores March 27, 2018
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About Emergency Contact
“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.
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About the Author
Mary H.K. Choi is a writer for the New York Times, GQ, Wired, and the Atlantic. She has written comics for Marvel and DC, as well as a collection of essays called Oh, Never Mind. She is the host of Hey, Cool Job!, a podcast about jobs, and is a culture correspondent for VICE News Tonight on HBO. Emergency Contact is her first novel. Mary grew up in Hong Kong and Texas and now lives in New York. Follow her on Twitter at @choitotheworld.
THE BOOKS ON MY EMERGENCY CONTACT LIST!
In other words, books I really would like to have on speed dial.
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Leah on the Offbeat
by Becky Albertalli
Link: http://a.co/heqFlrx
Puddin’ (Dumplin’)
by Julie Murphy
Link: http://a.co/cIWStio
My Plain Jane
by Cynthia Hand et al.
Link: http://a.co/4wnvBBB
When Life Gives You Demons
by Jennifer Honeybourn
Link: http://a.co/byLGkIh
Give Me Some Truth
by Eric Gansworth
Link: http://a.co/gkaJTQP
Rabbit & Robot
by Andrew Smith
Link: http://a.co/dMVkHLL
Love Songs & Other Lies: A Novel
The Midnights
LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND
Penny Lee and Sam are just waiting for a tough phase of life to hurry past! (1) winner receives:
- copy of Emergency Contact
- branded pop socket
- and a Herschel Supply Co. backpack to be ready for whatever phase is next!
Open to anyone with a US mailing address, sorry no PO Boxes
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I would have to say Akata Witch is my emergency contact book.
currently reading The Traitor’s Heir by Anna Thayer and loving it. Thank you
can’t think of any
While I’m anxiously awaiting the next Stephen King novel, probably the book I most want in the meantime is Twisted Staircase, by Dean Koontz.
I am wanting to read Winter Song that is at the top of my TBR list. I read the first one in the series and can’t wait to get this one!
I was lucky to recently read Queen Sugar. I loved it as much as the t.v. series!
I want to check out Obsidio and also Lord of Shadows 🙂 🙂
The Perfect Nanny
I still want to read The Shape of Water.
This and Obsidio!!
I am waiting on Legendary and Obsidio.
Restore Me by Mafi. OMG it was so good even with the major cliffhanger.
You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone by Rachel Lynn Solomon … it’s one of the best ya books I’ve read to be honest
mine would be the Queen Sugar book!
I want to read The Cruel Prince by Holly Black.
I just recently read Haunted Soul. I usually only read a book once but think I would read this one again.
Anne Bishop’s Lake Silence.
I recently read “The Sun is also a Star” by Nicola Yoon and I loved it. I want to read her previous book “Everything, Everything” . 🙂
any new audio and then new books
I just finished Getaway Girl by Tessa Bailey and it was amazing! My current most-wanted book is a book about essential oils for moms and babies. I checked it out of the library, but want to have my own copy.
I haven’t been able to read much lately.. rereading hardcore 24