by Dustin Thao
First published 2022
Julie Clarke has her life mapped out at seventeen. She will leave her small town with Sam, her boyfriend. They will attend college in the city together. She will spend a summer in Japan. Then Sam dies, and every plan crumbles. Julie cannot accept the silence where Sam's voice used to be. She dials his cell phone number, desperate to hear his voicemail greeting one more time. The phone rings. Sam picks up. What follows challenges everything Julie thought she knew about love, loss, and letting go. This story explores the impossible phone calls that bridge the gap between the living and the dead, and the girl who must learn that some conversations can heal even as they break your heart.
Genres: romance, grief, coming-of-age, contemporary
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
Setting: Japan
Period: 21st-century
304 pages · Paperback · Ediciones Kiwi
Content warnings: death