Desperate to distract herself, Evie signs up for a summer photography class, where she meets a motley crew of students, including quirky and adorable Declan. To make matters worse, Evie soon learns the reason her father was going to leave: he had been dating his twenty-two-year-old receptionist, Bree, who is now six months pregnant. After finding his packed bags, an impulsive Evie puts everything away to spare her mom more heartache.
But she knows something her mother doesn't: the day of his heart attack, her dad was planning to move out. Seventeen-year-old Evie Parker is devastated in the wake of her father's sudden death. Book excerpt: "An exquisitely told story of grief, growing up, and the glorious complexities of love and life." - Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and You'd Be Home Now "A sparkling, stirring ode to love, art, and unexpected human connection." - Jeff Zentner, Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King From the author of Accidental comes a gripping story about a teen grieving her father's sudden death-and grappling with the shocking secrets he left behind. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello.Īfter seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I've spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like.Download or read book When We Were Strangers written by Alex Richards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. I didn't know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn't see you again until a month ago. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. I learned more about myself that year than any other.
We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn't stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist "missed connection" post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City.
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