{"id":9272,"date":"2018-04-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9272"},"modified":"2018-04-27T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T14:16:58","slug":"y-you-are-here-but-where-and-who-am-i-by-jennifer-e-smith-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9272","title":{"rendered":"Y = You Are Here, but where and who am I? by Jennifer E. Smith (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookShe had a twin brother<\/a>,
\ndidn’t know till now –
\nvisiting his grave seems right… so far from here.<\/p>\n

So… if you just discovered at age 16 that you were a twin, would that explain why you never felt complete? <\/p>\n

Emma thinks it’s possible and that traveling from New York to North Carolina to see his headstone will help her in ways that her parents and much older siblings can’t.<\/p>\n

Peter longs to escape their small town, and a trip with Emma (just friends) is one way to start.<\/p>\n

Another satisfying story of traveling, evolving friendship, and interesting secrets from the author of The Statistical Probability of Falling in Love<\/em> (my notes here<\/a>) and Geography of Me and You<\/em> (noted here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Your favorite road-trip novel?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: You Are Here \/ Jennifer E. Smith. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She had a twin brother, didn’t know till now – visiting his grave seems right… so far from here. So… if you just discovered at age 16 that you were a twin, would that explain why you never felt complete? Emma thinks it’s possible and that traveling from New York to North Carolina to see […]<\/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":[10,90,22,4,75,5,37,16,18,44,43,39,49,186,290,15,21,35,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-9272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-new-york","tag-north-carolina","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"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\/9272","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=9272"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9545,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}