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. 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.
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. “For Penny Lee, high school was a total non-event. Since I haven’t written a proper review in a long time, I wanted to share with you all what I liked about this book, what I didn’t like, and what I thought was “meh.” Unfortunately, I was highly disappointed. In fact, someone I follow even refered to it as “the best contemp of 2018.” With so much hype and praise going around, I decided to make this my first #AsianLitBingo read.
Everyone is raving about how fantastic and heartwarming this novel is. Published by: Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersĮmergency Contact is making both the book-blogging community and Booktube go crazy.
