Author: Jennifer E. Smith
Publication Date: April 15th 2014
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For fans of John Green, Stephanie Perkins and Sarah Ockler, THE GEOGRAPHY OF YOU AND ME is a story for anyone who's ever longed to meet someone special, for anyone who's searched for home and found it where they least expected it.Owen lives in the basement. Lucy lives on the 24th floor. But when the power goes out in the midst of a New York heatwave, they find themselves together for the first time: stuck in a lift between the 10th and 11th floors. As they await help, they start talking...
The brief time they spend together leaves a mark. And as their lives take them to Edinburgh and San Francisco, to Prague and to Portland they can't shake the memory of the time they shared. Postcards cross the globe when they themselves can't, as Owen and Lucy experience the joy - and pain - of first love.
And as they make their separate journeys in search of home, they discover that sometimes it is a person rather than a place that anchors you most in the world.
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In The Geography of You and Me, for the first time ever Jennifer E Smith has
made me dislike her characters. Or I should say, some of the choices they make.
It's also a different style than I was
expecting, maybe more like the previous This is What Happy Looks Like, which it wasn't, and it was so much better
for it
The Geography of You and Me is different in a way that, in
This is What Happy Looks Like, we had the emails between Ellie and Graham,
whereas in here Lucy and Owen aren't so commutative, it's a more read between the lines kind of thing,
which made it refreshing and a little more angsty than ever before, and not a
repeat.