All my gratitude to the wonderful people at Random House Children’s Books: Barbara Marcus, John Adamo, Dominique Cimina, Kate Keating, Elizabeth Ward, Kelly McGauley, Hannah Black, Neil Swaab and Alison Impey, Adrienne Waintraub, Kristin Schulz and the School and Library team, Rebecca Gudelis, Colleen Fellingham, Nathan Kinney, Tamar Schwartz, and a million other awesome people who I will kick myself for not mentioning as soon as this goes to print. I’m deeply grateful to the international rights team at ICM and Curtis Brown, and in particular, Roxanne Edouard. Thanks also to Tia Ikemoto; the Hatchery, for providing me a writing home so close to home; and the Fiction Writers Co-op, for your water cooler magic. A special shout-out to Jennifer Mathieu, who answered a Facebook pun call and named Chloe’s yoga studio 9021-OM. A special thank-you to Andrea Peskind Katz for all of her insight, thoughts, and time.

Thank you always to the amazing Lola Wusu, Charlotte Huang, my college crew, and the rest of my amazing village. You all know who you are.

Big love to my amazing family: Dad, Josh, Leia, Jamesy, and of course, the Flore clan. Special thank-you to my mom, Elizabeth, who is loved and remembered every single day.

And finally, thank you to Indy and Elili and Luca, my snugglebugs and my favorite people in the whole wide world. ILYTTMABABAI.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JULIE BUXBAUM is the New York Times bestselling author of the young adult novels Hope and Other Punch Lines, What to Say Next, and Tell Me Three Things. She also wrote the critically acclaimed The Opposite of Love and After You. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. You can find her procrastinating on social at @juliebux (Twitter) and @juliebuxbaum (Insta).

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