Never Saw You Coming
A Novel
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
"BOLD. IMPORTANT. BEAUTIFUL.” - Laura Taylor Namey, New York Times bestselling author of A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
In Erin Hahn’s Never Saw You Coming, sometimes it takes a leap of faith to find yourself.
Eighteen-year-old Meg Hennessey just found out her entire childhood was a lie. So instead of taking a gap year before college to find herself, she ends up traveling north to meet what’s left of the family she never knew existed - all while questioning the ideals she grew up with.
While there, she meets Micah Allen, a former pastor’s kid whose dad ended up in prison, leaving Micah with his own complicated relationship with faith. The clock is ticking on his probation hearing and Micah, now 19, feels the pressure to forgive - even when he can’t possibly forget.
As Meg and Micah grow closer, they are confronted with the heavy flutterings of first love and all the complications it brings. Together, they must navigate the sometimes-painful process of cutting ties with childhood beliefs as they build toward something truer and straight from the heart.
"Heartfelt and utterly genuine… I already want to reread it." - Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of Small Favors
Customer Reviews
Surprising
I read “You’d Be Mine,” and then reread it approximately 3 times while waiting for Erin Hahn to release another book. Then I read “More Than Maybe,” and curiously (and I’ll admit, cautiously) awaited her next book. As someone who grew up in the evangelical, Deep South, I had loved the threads of a church upbringing that were woven into YBM - it made me feel like I could belong in a fictional world. Like I’d been given space to exist where I wasn’t painted as a bigot, as hyper religious, as undereducated or high and mighty. I was just a normal player alongside characters that I could understand. It’s weird, when you grow up and faith is suddenly something you’re choosing and not just immersed in. It’s not something I’ve ever found in the books I’ve read before.
Anyway, I really enjoyed that theme, loosely tangled through YBM and MTM.. but I’ll admit, when I read this summary, I sighed and didn’t read “Never Saw You Coming,” for an entire year. I thought, “Ah.. and here is where the author condemns me.” My place within the story was going to ousted, I was sure, as Meg and Micah threw off the shackles of their own upbringings and faith. And frankly, from the summary, that seemed reasonable. I just didn’t see how I could fit in that story, and I didn’t want it to taint what I had found in YBM, so I decided not to read it. A year later and I’m not totally sure what changed my mind, only that I’m really glad I returned to this and read it after all.
It’s complicated. It’s messy. So am I, and so are you. The Church as intended is a beautiful thing. The church as we’ve warped her is a wounded thing, that has a sad talent of wounding others.
I’m really glad I read this book, but I’m mostly glad Erin Hahn wrote it. I hope you read it, too. I hope it helps you feel how loved you are.