Kissing in America - Romantic Novel for Young Adults | Heartwarming Love Story, Coming-of-Age Journey | Perfect for Book Clubs & Teen Readers" (Note: Assuming this is a book title based on the original text. If it refers to something else, please provide more context for accurate optimization.)
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Acclaimed writer Margo Rabb’s Kissing in America is “a wonderful novel about friendship, love, travel, life, hope, poetry, intelligence, and the inner lives of girls,” raves internationallybestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love). In the two years since her father died, sixteen-year-old Eva has found comfort in reading romance novels—118 of them, to be exact—to dull the pain of her loss that’s still so present. Her romantic fantasies become a reality when she meets Will, who can relate to Eva’s grief. Unfortunately, after Eva falls head-over-heels for him, he picks up and moves to California with barely any warning. Not wanting to lose the only person who has been able to pull her out of sadness—and, perhaps, her first shot at real love—Eva and her best friend, Annie, concoct a plan to travel to the west coast. As they road trip across America, Eva and Annie confront the complex truth about love. In this honest and emotional journey that National Book Award Finalist Sara Zarr calls “gorgeous, funny, and joyous,” readers will experience the highs of infatuation and the lows of heartache as Eva contends with love in all of its forms. Since publication, this novel received 4 starred reviews and has been named:A Chicago Public Library Best Teen Book of 2015A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens 2015A Miami Herald Best Book of the YearA Spirit of Texas selectionA TAYSHAS High School Reading List SelectionAn Oprah Summer Reading List selectionA Junior Library Guild selectionAn Amazon Best Book of the MonthA Publisher’s Lunch 2015 Buzz Book for Young Adults
Customer Reviews
If one were to dismiss this enchanting and at once heart-tugging and hilarious book as " just" chick-lit or "just" YA, it would not only be short-sighted, it would deprive one of truly appreciating a very special voice in the modern novel. Accessible enough to be " pop" but intelligently written enough to be " literary" ( The main character cites writing from Edna St. Vincent Millay to Gloria Steinem to Adrienne Rich. ) , this wonderful , sweet book has everything : dramatic intrigue ( because of her mother's inability to demonstrate coping mechanisms, the main character, a teenager, lies that her father died of a heart attack instead of in a famous plane crash) , love ( rarely has the anguish and thrill of teenage love been written with such biting honesty and lack of vomitously maudlin treacle) , a road trip ( the main characters totally communicate that first thrill of seeing different states) , contemporary tropes ( the main character and her best friend are going across country to be on a reality/game show for one's college education monies ) and finally, that nearly fail-safe tack, a main character who is an avid reader and writer. The entire book moves swiftly, but you are sad to see it end, and when the denouements ( one expected, one rather painfully shocking ) arrive, the breath may be knocked out of you and you may want to stop reading, but you won't be able to... and is there anything more you could ask from a book than that?
