Kissing In America

Author(s): Margo Rabb
ISBN: 9780143573258
Binding: Paperback
Published: 2015-05-27

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,'writes internationally bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love).

Sixteen-year-old Eva has never been in love. But when she meets Will, everything changes. With him, her grief over her father's death fades, and she can escape from her difficult relationship with her mother. Then, without any warning, Will picks up and moves to California. So Evawith the help of her best friend, Annieconcocts a plan to travel across the country to see him again. As they leave New York City for the first time and road-trip across America, they encounter cowboys, kudzu, and tiny towns without stoplights. Along the way, Eva and Annie learn the truth about love and all its complexities.

In this honest and emotional journey that US 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 its forms.

Praise for Kissing in America:

'Wonderful . . . Margo Rabb has created nothing less than a women's map of American mythologies, navigating from Emily Dickinson to Barbara Cartland, from the cowboys of the rodeos to the makeup studios of Hollywood, and from the bottom of the Atlantic to the spacious skies of the USA.' E. Lockhart, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars

'A wonderful novel about friendship, love, travel, life, hope, poetry, intelligence and the inner lives of girls. Margo Rabb writes with compassion and clarity about lives that are worth ...