Today, its that time of the week, Booklight, spotlighting another anticipated release this year. My choice for today is Jennifer E Smith, The Geography of You and Me. I absolutely loved her contemporary, This is What Happy Looks Like last year and I’m super excited to read this book very soon. So the lovely Jennifer has given you and me an excerpt on what’s to come…
The Geography of You and Me
by Jennifer E. Smith
Release Date – April 10th 2014
Publisher – Headline
Lucy and Owen meet somewhere between the tenth and eleventh floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they’re rescued, they spend a single night together, wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once the power is restored, so is reality. Lucy soon moves to Edinburgh with her parents, while Owen heads out west with his father.
Lucy and Owen’s relationship plays out across the globe as they stay in touch through postcards, occasional e-mails, and — finally — a reunion in the city where they first met.
A carefully charted map of a long-distance relationship, Jennifer E. Smith’s new novel shows that the center of the world isn’t necessarily a place. It can be a person, too.
Click on ‘Read More’ to read an excerpt of this brilliant novel.
Outside, they stood for a moment with the plastic bags hooked around their fingers. The last streaks of pink had been erased from the sky over the Hudson, and an inky black had settled over the street. As they walked uptown to join the line for free ice cream, there was still a feeling of celebration to the evening. The price of beer at the bar next door was plummeting as the kegs grew warmer, and on the other side of Broadway, a restaurant was serving a makeshift dinner by candlelight. A few kids ran past with purple glowsticks, and two mounted policemen steered their wary-eyed horses through the crowds, surveying the scene from above.
As the line inched forward, Lucy glanced over at Owen, who was looking around with a dazed expression.
“You’d think there’d be looting or something,” he said. “In a place like this, you’d think it’d be mayhem. But it’s just a big party.”
“I told you it’s not so bad here,” Lucy said. “Give it a chance.”
“Okay,” he said with a little smile. “As long as you promise every night will be like this.”
“What,” she asked, “dark?”
“That’s the thing,” he said, looking up. “It’s not that dark. Not really.”
She followed his gaze to where the sliver of moon hung above the shadowy outline of the buildings, a thin curve of white against a navy sky that was dotted with stars. In all her years here, Lucy had never seen anything like it: a million points of light, all of them usually drowned out by the brilliant electricity of the city, the billboards and streetlights, the lasers and sirens, the fluorescent lamps and the neon bulbs, and the great white noise of it all, which left no room for anything else to break through.
But tonight, the world had gone quiet. There was nothing but the black canopy of the sky and the wash of stars above, burning so bright that Lucy found she couldn’t look away.
“He was right,” she murmured. “This must be quite a sight from up in space.”
Owen didn’t answer for a moment, and when he finally did, his voice was hushed. “I don’t know,” he said. “I think it’s even better from down here.”
THE GEOGRAPHY OF YOU AND ME is coming to a store near you on the April 10th!
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I'm really excited for this one too Emma! I loved This is What Happy Looks Like and can't wait for the travel aspect of this story. I don't travel as much as I would like to, so it's fun to live vicariously through characters who do:) Thanks for sharing the excerpt!
I love Jennifer's writing. So sweet, gorgeous and yet simple. Can't wait to read what's beneath this gorgeous cover 🙂 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING, EMMA!!!
It has a blurb!!! When I first heard about this book, it only had a teasing line about 2 teenagers in NYC and some blackout, and now I'm so glad to read the full version! I bet the long distance relationship is going to be so cute to read. Ah, I can't wait to read this book, Jennifer E Smith hasn't disappointed me in her previous reads, so I have high hopes from this one as well! Thanks for sharing, Emma =)
Plus, can I just say that it's so cool that you designed your blog yourself! I love it!
I'm dying to read this one Emma!! I loved the first one and it's such a perfect summer read. I had no idea it had a blurb either and now I'm even more excited! 🙂 Great post and thanks for sharing 🙂
Aww this is such a cute excerpt!! I have had a copy of this for sometime, but seem to be so behind on my review pile, I hope we both end up enjoying this book! Thanks for sharing Emma! 🙂
I'm actually reading this at the moment! I read This is What Happy Looks Like last year and it was super cute<3 I have high expectations for this! Thanks for sharing Emma<3
this author sounds really great, thank you so much for sharing the excerpt!
I really like that excerpt! I enjoyed The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by this author, but I haven't tried anything else by her. I'll probably pick up This is What Happy Looks Like first, seeing as though you like it so much, but I look forward to giving this a try too. Thanks so much for sharing, Emma! 🙂
This sounds like it will be so cute! Can't wait to read your thoughts on it, Emma! 🙂