Synopses & Reviews
For fans of Sarah Dessen and John Green, this is a breathtaking debut about a couple who fall in love...twice.
Before: Reena Montero has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she can remember. But he's never noticed that Reena even exists... until one day, impossibly, he does. Reena and Sawyer fall in messy, complicated love. Then Sawyer disappears without a word, leaving a devastated — and pregnant — Reena behind.
After: Almost three years have passed, and there's a new love in Reena's life: her daughter. Reena's gotten used to life without Sawyer, but just as suddenly as he disappeared, he turns up again. Reena wants nothing to do with him, though she'd be lying if she said his being back wasn't stirring something in her.
After everything that's happened, can Reena really let herself love Sawyer LeGrande again?
Review
“A vibrant, sparkling narrative of first love and second chances — will remind you that love isn't ever easy, but falling for a great story is.” Entertainment Weekly
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“[In this] confident debut...it's impossible not to root for the two of them to beat the odds.” Publishers Weekly
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“Cotugno's debut ambitiously, and intriguingly, follows a couple who fall in love twice, over two different time periods.” Booklist
About the Author
Katie Cotugno went to Catholic school for thirteen years, which makes her, as an adult, both extremely superstitious and prone to crushes on boys wearing blazers. She is a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in Mississippi Review, Apalachee Review, Iowa Review, and Argestes, among other literary magazines, as well as on Nerve.com. She lives in Boston with her husband, Tom. How to Love is her first novel.