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by Genevieve Wheeler
From the author of Adelaide comes a bittersweet, deeply felt story that follows the start and unraveling of a seemingly unbreakable bond between two young women.
Lina and June's friendship shouldn't make sense. June has her future planned to a T; Lina takes life day by day, party by party. June's dreams are color-coded and neatly filed, while Lina's are even too big for New York City, where she and June are students at the same university. But after a messy night out throws the two girls together, it seems like nothing can tear them apart.
Until June's health takes an unexpected turn for the worse.
Until Lina jets off to Paris, leaving her best friend behind.
As Lina and June's once-intertwined lives veer off on separate paths, they're on their own to figure out how to fix their severed bond―and decide if it's even worth repairing―or risk running out of time completely.
Are some heartbreaks too big to patch?
"Lina & June is a big-hearted novel about two best friends navigating the tumult of young adulthood. Together they face disappointments in romance, jobs and adventures ― but rarely in each other and never in croissants. This is the epic love story I always hoped Genevieve Wheeler would write." ―Beck Dorey-Stein, New York Times bestselling author of Spectacular Things
"Lovingly told and richly textured, this moving novel about a platonic coup de foudre turned lifelong friendship is full of humor and heartbreak. Wheeler renders the euphoria and safety, but also the sometimes asymmetric effort, frustration, and disappointment, behind the phrase 'best friends.' In this immersive dual coming-of-age that takes us from New York to D.C., Florida, and Paris, the central relationship is the complex love between two young women who help to raise each other." ―Emma Knight, bestselling author of The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
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Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published.
Genevieve Wheeler is an American writer and communications director. Her bylines have appeared in publications like VICE, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, Elite Daily, Bustle, Business Insider, and POPSUGAR, with her work and words cited in The New York Times, Vox, the BBC, Jezebel, and beyond. She holds an MA in marketing communications from the University of Westminster in London and a BS in advertising from Boston University. Genevieve currently lives in London with her husband and their very cuddly Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Nellie. She is also the author of Adelaide.
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