On Again, Awkward Again
A Novel
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The laugh-out-loud YA romance by two award-winning and bestselling authors, Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia, that’s perfect for fans of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before or When Dimple Met Rishi
When Pacy Mercado and Cecil Holloway spot each other during the first week of freshman year, it’s love at first sight. Well, more like love at first fleeting, injury-riddled glance, since the moment is ruined thanks to clumsiness and a criminal case of IBS.
Despite their total lack of game, Pacy and Cecil are drawn to each other. Seven seconds of eye contact turns into days of yearning and stress as they make the mistake of following misguided advice from their friends, dysfunctional families, and strangers on the internet.
But the universe conspires to bring Pacy and Cecil together when they both end up on the WADS committee to plan the freshman dance (that’s Wakeville’s Awesome Décor Society, if you must know).
As they spend more time together, they realize that the other person might be just what they need . . . that is, if they can figure out how to be themselves and embrace the mishaps, mistakes, and hilariously awkward interactions that make up their imperfectly perfect love story.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Kelly (The First State of Being) and Mbalia (Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek) tackle the ups, downs, and awkward in-betweens of young love in this wholesome rom-com collaboration. When high schoolers Pacy Mercado and Cecil Holloway spot each other during freshman orientation, they feel that they suddenly understand the meaning of love at first sight. But life gets in the way and their meet-cute is interrupted. They're resigned to never acting on their feelings—until they're appointed to the same event committee for their freshman dance. Yet even as Pacy and Cecil grow closer, they struggle to believe that a shot at love is worth enduring the challenges both internal and external that seem determined to keep them apart. Via the teens' earnest dual POVs, Kelly and Mbalia redefine established romance concepts such as soulmates and instalove. Humorous conversational dialogue and occasional early-2000s pop culture references balance the protagonists' cringe-worthy moments and provide an approachable window into the heartwarming center of this seemingly doomed-from-the-start love story. Pacy is of Filipino descent; Cecil is Black. Ages 13–up.
