Kissing in America by Margo Rabb

Kissing in America by Margo Rabb

A must-read for fans of Jenny Han! Acclaimed writer Margo Rabb's Kissing in America is "a wonderful novel about friendship, love, travel, life, hope, poetry, intelligence, and the inner lives of girls," raves internationally bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love).

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 can relate to Eva's grief. Unfortunately, after Eva falls head-over-heels for him, he picks up and moves to California with barely any warning. Not wanting to lose the only person who has been able to pull her out of sadness--and, perhaps, her first shot at real love--Eva and her best friend, Annie, concoct a plan for a cross-country road trip to the west coast. As they travel across America, Eva and Annie confront the complex truth about love in this heartfelt coming of age story. 

In this honest and emotional young adult fiction journey that National Book Award Finalist Sara Zarr calls "gorgeous, funny, and joyous," readers will experience the highs of infatuation and the lows of heartache as Eva contends with love in all of its forms. 

Since publication, this novel received 4 starred reviews and has been named:

• A Chicago Public Library Best Teen Book of the Year
• A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens
• A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year
• A Spirit of Texas selection
• A TAYSHAS High School Reading List Selection
• An Oprah Summer Reading List selection
• A Junior Library Guild selection
• An Amazon Best Book of the Month
• A Publisher's Lunch Buzz Book for Young Adults

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.