When Love Gives You Lemons
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- $279.00
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- $279.00
Descripción editorial
In this exuberant YA romance from the critically acclaimed author of And They Lived..., a budding social media influencer sets out to win back his first love at a family wedding in an Italian lemon grove.
Ever since he was a kid, Fielder Lemon's large, opinionated Italian-American family has lived next to Ricky DeLuca and his large, opinionated Italian-American family. For almost as long, Fielder has known that he wants to marry Ricky one day. And he thought Ricky felt the same way-until Ricky breaks up with Fielder, saying he needs to figure out who he is on his own.
One year later, Fielder is asked to be one of the best men in his cousin's destination wedding on the Amalfi Coast in Italy, but there's a twist: his cousin is marrying Ricky's sister. Fielder hasn't talked to or seen Ricky once during the last entire, terrible year, but he hasn't given up on his first love quite yet-and isn't a wedding in an Italian lemon grove the perfect setting to rekindle their relationship? Except Ricky might have already moved on.
Now, Fielder has less than a week to win back Ricky's heart while also trying not to ruin his cousin's wedding. But if there's one thing Fielder knows, it's that when life gives you lemons, take a bite!
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An aspiring influencer schemes to win back his ex-boyfriend during a destination wedding in this high-spirited second-chance romance from Salvatore (No Perfect Places). When his cousin Topher announces his engagement, recent high school graduate and social media food reviewer Fielder Lemon sees the upcoming wedding as a chance to win back his ex, Ricky, Topher's fiancé's younger brother. But Ricky—who broke up with Fielder and left Westchester a year ago for a woodworking apprenticeship in Seattle—arrives in the Amalfi Coast for the wedding week with his boyfriend, Cam. Undeterred, Fielder endeavors to undermine their relationship while filming content for a contest that could parlay his social media skills into a lucrative career. As sparks fly once again between Fielder and Ricky, Fielder struggles to keep his busybody family members in the dark regarding his brewing romance, and waffles about sharing his suspicions that Cam is cheating on Ricky. Fielder's theatrical first-person POV gives way to Ricky's more subdued, self-conscious narration halfway through the novel in a switch that showcases Salvatore's perceptive grasp of adolescent voices. The tricky reality of rekindling romance complements the protagonists' messy hijinks. Main characters are Italian American. Ages 14–up.
