AGES 13 AND UP YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Like Love ■ ■ BY L E A H KO N E N
S E LLING POINTS ■■ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Black Mirror: Virtual
A fun, flirty rom-com in which virtual reality technology threatens to derail one girl’s shot at true love
reality is at the forefront of American cultural conversations ■■ Trademark voice: Konen returns with her light, humorous tone that won hearts in The Romantics ■■ Love triangle with a twist: A fresh spin on the traditional love triangle embraces the memory’s role in love
S PECIFICATIONS 336 pages, 5½ × 8¼" Hardcover with jacket RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: NOVEMBER ISBN 978-1-4197-2573-9 ISBN 978-1-4197-2573-9 US $18.99 CAN $22.99 51899 9 781419 725739
CARTON QTY: 28 eISBN 978-1-68335-165-8
Seventeen-year-old Mabel Shepley loves working at Past Perfect, a sleek, high-tech store in San Francisco, where she helps customers view their memories—or mems—through lens recordings in the privacy of a state-of-the-art VR booth. Mabel hasn’t recorded her own mems since the Very Bad Event of the previous year, but the customers are cool and it pays well. Mabel’s life is easy-breezy until Charlie is hired for the summer. Charlie and Mabel bond over the course of their shared shifts, and soon their innocent flirtation develops into something more serious. But after Mabel catches Charlie
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checking out his mems one evening—and looking morose as a result—her curiosity gets the best of her. Snooping on Charlie by peering into his virtual reality mems leads Mabel down a rabbit hole of misunderstandings that threaten to destroy a love that’s just maybe real. In a world where past hurts and heartbreaks are always accessible, can Mabel Shepley trust her heart enough to find real love in the present?
The Romantics ISBN 978-1-4197-2193-9 ISBN 978-1-4197-2193-9 US $18.95 CAN $22.95 51895
Leah Konen is the author of The Romantics, The After Girls, and The Last Time We Were Us. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and her dog. Find out more at leahkonen.com.
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