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A New York Times bestseller
"Smart and funny...warm and rewarding." --Booklist (starred review)
"A compelling and quirky tale of love and negotiating early adulthood in New York City." --School Library Journal From the New York Times bestselling author of Emergency Contact, which Rainbow Rowell called "smart and funny," comes a "captivating" (The New York Times) romance about how social media influences relationships every day. On paper, college dropout Pablo Rind doesn't have a whole lot going for him. His graveyard shift at a twenty-four-hour deli in Brooklyn is a struggle. Plus, he's up to his eyeballs in credit card debt. Never mind the state of his student loans. Pop juggernaut Leanna Smart has enough social media followers to populate whole continents. The brand is unstoppable. She graduated from child stardom to become an international icon, and her adult life is a queasy blur of private planes, step-and-repeats, aspirational hotel rooms, and strangers screaming for her just to notice them. When Leanna and Pablo meet at 5:00 a.m. at the bodega in the dead of winter it's absurd to think they'd be A Thing. But as they discover who they are, who they want to be, and how to defy the deafening expectations of everyone else, Lee and Pab turn to each other. Which, of course, is when things get properly complicated.
"Smart and funny...warm and rewarding." --Booklist (starred review)
"A compelling and quirky tale of love and negotiating early adulthood in New York City." --School Library Journal From the New York Times bestselling author of Emergency Contact, which Rainbow Rowell called "smart and funny," comes a "captivating" (The New York Times) romance about how social media influences relationships every day. On paper, college dropout Pablo Rind doesn't have a whole lot going for him. His graveyard shift at a twenty-four-hour deli in Brooklyn is a struggle. Plus, he's up to his eyeballs in credit card debt. Never mind the state of his student loans. Pop juggernaut Leanna Smart has enough social media followers to populate whole continents. The brand is unstoppable. She graduated from child stardom to become an international icon, and her adult life is a queasy blur of private planes, step-and-repeats, aspirational hotel rooms, and strangers screaming for her just to notice them. When Leanna and Pablo meet at 5:00 a.m. at the bodega in the dead of winter it's absurd to think they'd be A Thing. But as they discover who they are, who they want to be, and how to defy the deafening expectations of everyone else, Lee and Pab turn to each other. Which, of course, is when things get properly complicated.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Choi, Mary H. K.
- ISBN: 9781534445987
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.00 x 1.30
- Number Of Pages: 448
- Publication Year: 2020
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Not all who wander are lost
Florence S. - 6 years 4 months agoI'll have to admit I came into this book expecting it to be very similar to Choi's previous novel, Emergency Contact. While this book is not bad, it misses the ease of Emergency Contact. Permanent Record gives off an impression of a book that is trying too hard. While I liked a lot about the book, it's diverse protagonist and characters, side characters that have their own trials and tribulations, a great sense of location, a likeable main character, etc, etc, etc, there's something about the book that feels like it's going nowhere. There is no main plot. And while I understand this is probably purposeful from the author, to serve as a large metaphor for exactly how the main character's life is going, the stagnancy is allowed to go on for too long. In addition, I did like the main character and understood his avoidance tactics in facing real life, as the book continued, he made it harder and harder for me to sympathize with the situation he was in, since he just kept digging himself a larger and larger hole. Probably one of the strangest notions about this book is how often the main character spends thinking about this love interest or spending time with her, but despite all those pages devoted to this out of your league girl, I never got a full grasp of her character. Maybe this is on purpose, it's Pablo's, the main character's story, not hers. But I would have thought I would have more takeaways about her at the end of the book than the beginning. You would think all these things mean I don't like the book. But despite how I personally do not like how the plot or characters played out, I understood why the author made these decisions in her storytelling as it only served to highlight the growth Pablo experiences at the end of the book. Overall, I strongly recommend this book to people who are New York through and through, figuring out their lives, becoming an adult, or just believe that not all who wander are lost. #SummerReading
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Unexpected Goodness
Karissa F. - 6 years 5 months agoThis book wasn’t quite what I expected, and that’s okay. I was expecting a dual point of view romance with real characters and coming of age storyline more in the vein of Choi’s first book, Emergency Contact. Permanent Record, focused more on the coming of age story and on one character and less on the romance, which was fine by me. While the jargon in the voice of the POV character was a little much in the beginning and hard to follow at times, he ended up being endearing to me, and I loved the strong voice over all. I also loved the sense of place in this book. You could tell the author knows what it’s like to live in New York, and it felt so real. I won’t give spoilers, but I will say I loved how everything came together in the end. This novel is a wonderful inquiry into the question: what does success mean? Also an exploration of love, family, friendship and redemption. Also snacks. Lots of snacks.