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When Lu Charles’s boyfriend drops the de‑brief line after her senior year, the once‑flamboyant New York City columnist finds herself unable to pen a single word, and her scholarship to NYU hangs in the balance. With friends, family and looming deadlines fading into the background, Lu’s world is turned upside down when she stumbles upon another college‑bound couple, Cal and Iris, on the brink of breakup. Their decision to spend one last summer together sparks something in Lu—a chance to rewrite her own narrative and a possibility to cure her writer’s block. As she chronicles their final weeks, Lu becomes intimately involved in their story, questioning her own beliefs about love and the path she’s chosen.
Will Lu find the truth she’s been chasing and secure her future in journalism, or will her journey teach her a deeper lesson about love itself?
First publish date: 2019
Genre: Young Adult Fiction/YA Romance
Authors: Adi Alsaid
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