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by Lygia Day Peñaflor
When a mysterious tunnel in Central Park allows a heartbroken college dropout to revisit her tragic past, will she ever move on and embrace the hope—and the love—in her present? This mind-bending coming-of-age romance is perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Dustin Thao.
Are you ready to go back?
Tia is sleepwalking through life. Once an ambitious student and promising actor, now she's an aimless college dropout dragging herself to her dog-walking job…until she follows the sound of a ringing bell to a mysterious tunnel in Central Park, a tunnel that can transport her back in time, back to the summer of Natty.
When MIT-bound Natty Poole delivered the valedictory speech of a lifetime, Tia finally noticed him, the awkward boy who'd always adored her. Despite their looming departures for college, they couldn't help but fall in love. But their perfect summer came to a tragic end, separating Tia and Natty seemingly forever.
Although visiting the tunnel weakens her, Tia remains obsessed with seeing Natty and finding a way to change the past—so obsessed that she's neglecting the present, which includes the handsome and persuasive film student Razor Ford, who is dead set on having Tia star in his short film.
Every moment spent with Razor feels like a betrayal of Natty, but there's something about Razor that keeps pulling her in. Torn between then and now, how can Tia move on when her heart and the tunnel won't let her?
"Artistically executed, with the science-fiction elements functioning as a well-orchestrated metaphor for regrets and preoccupation with the past. Like Razor's film, which he hopes will evoke a 'Reiner/Ephron autumn,' the story has a lovely, fall-in-the-city vibe that matches its emotional tone ... Wistfulness embodied." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"If time is the fourth dimension, Beautiful to See You (Again) makes a compelling argument for love as a fifth dimension; a force more powerful than time itself. This tender, gorgeous book will lift your heart to the sun and make it sing." —Jeff Zentner, author of In the Wild Light
"Beautiful To See You (Again) broke my heart and put it back together again. I flew through this story!" —Goldy Moldavsky, author of The Mary Shelley Club
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Lygia Day Peñaflor is the critically acclaimed author of Creep: A Love Story, All of This Is True, Unscripted Joss Byrd, and Beautiful to See You (Again). Her novels have been published around the world in over a dozen languages. She lives with her husband on Long Island.
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