![]() “?‘Fun’ is definitely not the first word that comes to mind,” I whisper back to him as I scan the room, taking in the absolute zoo that is the Huckabee School District monthly bingo fundraiser. A smile that acts like we didn’t just spend the past three years before tonight avoiding absolutely every possible reminder of her. “This’ll be fun,” my dad whispers to me, turning around in the card-buying line to give me a big, blindingly hopeful smile. But I still reach my hand into my pocket to feel the smooth metal, my thumbnail finding that familiar nick on the edge just above George Washington’s head. I cringe as that word pops into my head, an image of blue eyes and long brown hair following it, never too far behind. But there was just something about the way it was sitting there tonight, on the same bookshelf where it had sat untouched for three years. I’d walked past it hundreds and hundreds of times without a second thought while a thin layer of dust formed around the edges. Suddenly Emily must face another fear: accepting the secret part of herself she never got a chance to share with the person who knew her best. As they go further down the list, Emily finally begins to feel close to her mom again, but her bond with Blake starts to deepen, too, into something she wasn’t expecting. When Blake suggests that Emily take it on as a challenge, the pair set off on a journey to tick each box and help Emily face her fears before everything changes. And with her best friend away for the summer and her other friends taking her ex’s side, the only person she has to talk to about it is Blake, the swoony new girl she barely knows.īut that’s when Emily finds the list-her mom’s senior year summer bucket list-buried in a box in the back of her closet. ![]() Soon, she’ll have no connections left to Mom but her lucky quarter. Not only has Emily wrecked things with her boyfriend Matt, who her mom adored, but her dad is selling the house she grew up in and giving her mom’s belongings away. Now, the summer before her senior year, things are getting worse. But Emily’s mom’s luck ran out three years ago when she succumbed to cancer, and nothing has felt right for Emily since. Rachael Lippincott, coauthor of #1 New York Times bestseller Five Feet Apart, weaves a “breezy…truly charming” ( Kirkus Reviews) love story about learning who you are, and who you love, when the person you’ve always shared yourself with is gone.Įmily and her mom were always lucky.
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