Book description
We were going to see the world together, Lindsay and I. We were going
to eat it up, whole. But it didn't happen that way. It didn't happen
that way at all.... When Chloe's parents decide to take her to Europe
the summer before senior year of high school, she's ecstatic...she only
wishes her best friend, Lindsay, could come too. Living in Las Vegas,
they have long imagined the world through the casinos inspired by great
cities and have vowed to travel the globe together someday.
Unfortunately, Lindsay's parents won't agree to send her along. So Chloe
goes to Europe and sends postcards to Lindsay every day. But when she
comes home, she must cope with shocking news that rips her family -- and
Lindsay's -- apart. And as she tries to uncover the truth about what
happened, Chloe soon begins to feel that Lindsay's brother, Noah, is the
one person alive for whom she'd go to the ends of the earth.... From the
acclaimed author of The Pursuit of Happiness, this is a stunning new
novel of friendship, love, and loss, set against the dazzling dual
backdrops of Europe and Las Vegas. "A compulsively readable tale
of complicated friendships, life-changing loss, and the search for
authentic experience in a world full of artifice. It's a story of coming
to terms with the fragility of life as well as its mettle, and with the
failures of those we love along with our own...in other words, growing
up." -- Sara Zarr, author of
Story of a Girl
Tara Altebrando also writes adult fiction for Downtown Press as Tara
McCarthy. Her work has appeared in magazines, including Seventeen and
Mademoiselle.
