{"product_id":"emergency-contact","title":"Emergency Contact","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book.\" --Rainbow Rowell\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory--perfect for fans of \u003ci\u003eEleanor \u0026amp; Park \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTo All the Boys I've Loved Before\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Penny Lee, high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she'd somehow landed a boyfriend, they never managed to know much about each other. Now Penny is heading 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSam'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 checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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, you know, \u003ci\u003esee\u003c\/i\u003e each other.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48000056754365,"sku":"BS-TC0-408975","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781534408975-HD.jpg?v=1786797031","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/emergency-contact","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}