Emergency Contact

Mary H. K. Choi

Hachette UK

2019

400 páginas

13h 20m

ISBN-13: 9780349003474

'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 non-event. 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 million 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 bank 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.

Resenhas (3)

4 (Muito bom)

Romance de dois cabeças-duras

Acho que pra mim o ponto alto do livro foi a identificação com a personagem principal. Acho que o fato de ser asiática conta muito.

O que me impediu de dar uma nota maior: achei que o final foi abrupto. Era claro pro leitor que eles se gostavam, mas estava ali nas entrelinhas. Achei que faltou um final mais direto.

Além disso, a maneira como Penny tratava a mãe não me agradou. Acho que teve muita culpabilização, mas a mãe não era tão desleixada assim.