{"id":5602,"date":"2015-06-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2015-06-09T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T14:40:08","slug":"geography-of-you-and-me-by-jennifer-e-smith-book-review-postcards-from-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5602","title":{"rendered":"Geography of You and Me, by Jennifer E. Smith (book review) – postcards from the road?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Conversation while stranded in an elevator,
\nexploring the city as the blackout continues,
\nbut having just met, they must travel in opposite directions!<\/p>\n

This long-distance “wondering what if?” story should be at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> – if not, ask for it! Jennifer also wrote The Statistical Probability of Falling in Love<\/em> (my no-spoiler recommendation here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Read the first chapter here<\/a> (thank you, Poppy Books!) for the stuck-in-elevator meeting that starts it all.<\/p>\n

Surprise someone by sending them a postcard today!
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: The Geography of You and Me \/ Jennifer E. Smith. Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2014 (hardcover); Poppy Books, 2015 (paperback). [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Stranded in an elevator during a blackout before moving away from New York City, Owen and Lucy send postcards from places they travel and think of each other more and more.<\/p>\n

Owen wouldn’t even have been in the elevator if he and Dad hadn’t fled Pennsylvania after Mom died. Lucy had ridden this elevator for 16 years without getting stuck – why now, when her jetsetting parents are in Paris and her brothers away at college?<\/p>\n

Lucy’s dad accepts a position in Scotland, not exactly the London job that her British mom had hoped for. Owen’s dad decides that they should head west, find a job somewhere away from NYC where they cannot see the stars.<\/p>\n

No smartphone or email for Owen, by choice – he sends Lucy postcards from the road. He meets a beautiful girl at Lake Tahoe, and yet…<\/p>\n

Each postcard spurs a lengthy email from Lucy, full of her life in Scotland, excluding mention of the handsome rugby player who’s interested in her, however…<\/p>\n

When Lucy’s family gathers for a wedding near San Francisco where Owen’s dad is trying to get a job, the pair will get to see each other after all these months, but what if…<\/p>\n

Does absence truly make the heart grow fonder?
\nIs “wish you were here?” ever enough?<\/p>\n

A tale of travel, love, and learning from the author of The Statistical Probability of Falling in Love<\/em>.\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conversation while stranded in an elevator, exploring the city as the blackout continues, but having just met, they must travel in opposite directions! This long-distance “wondering what if?” story should be at your local library or independent bookstore – if not, ask for it! Jennifer also wrote The Statistical Probability of Falling in Love (my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[22,105,11,5,37,16,32,18,40,46,43,39,49,184,186,15,9,200,21,35,3,6,8,84],"class_list":["post-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-behavior","tag-california","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-england","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-new-york","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-scotland","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-washington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6157,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions\/6157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}