![]() The personality and humor shine through. You can become easily enthralled by the book because reading it feels entirely immersive. Even more so, there’s all these details in the books that range from the characters to the houses. Choi’s writing persona shines through from the first pages. I absolutely love the title and the cover from the get go, but after reading it I adore it even more. So I did what you all have to do, wait for it to come out! ![]() But there are those books that keep you enthralled, that keep popping up in your life, and Emergency Contact was one of them. So I had been searching for this book ever since it got announced. 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. When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. 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. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. When Penny heads 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. 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. Summaryįor Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. The characters of this book are emotional, vulnerable, and so endearing. It was a book that I had heard so much about and it is so well deserving.
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