Kissing in America by Margo Rabb

Kissing in America by Margo Rabb

I loved romances because when you opened the first page, you knew the story would end well. Your heart wouldn't be broken. I loved that security, that guaranteed love.

In real life, you never knew the ending. I hated that.

In the two years since her father died, sixteen-year-old Eva has found comfort in reading romance novels--118 of them, to be exact--to dull the pain of her loss that's still so present. Her romantic fantasies become a reality when she meets Will, who understands her grief. Unfortunately, after Eva falls head over heels for him, he picks up and moves to California without any warning. Not wanting to lose the only person who has been able to pull her out of sadness--and, perhaps, her shot at real love--Eva and her best friend, Annie, concoct a plan to travel to the West Coast to see Will again. As they road-trip across America, Eva and Annie encounter cowboys, kudzu, and tiny towns without stoplights. Along the way, they confront the complex truth about love.

In this honest and emotional journey from acclaimed writer Margo Rabb, readers will experience the highs of infatuation and the lows of heartache as Eva contends with love in all of its forms.

Margo Rabb is a well-known novelist whose debut, Cures for Heartbreak, was praised by both critics and young readers. Her articles and short stories have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Rumpus, Zoetrope: All-Story, Seventeen, Best New American Voices, New Tales from the South, and One Story, as well as NPR. She won the Zoetrope short story contest grand prize, the Atlantic fiction contest first prize, and the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award. Margo was born and raised in Queens, New York, and has since lived in Texas, Arizona, and the Midwest before settling in Philadelphia with her husband and two children.