{"product_id":"2940170802630","title":"Emergency Contact","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward gloryamp;mdash;perfect for fans of \u003ci\u003eEleanor amp; Park \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTo All the Boys I've Loved Before\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn't actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it's seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can't wait to leave behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam's stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he's a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Sam and Penny cross paths it's less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touchamp;mdash;via textamp;mdash;and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to \u003ci\u003esee\u003c\/i\u003e each other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161059082480,"sku":"2940170802630","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170802630_p0.jpg?v=1763718096","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170802630","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}