True Love and Other Impossible Odds
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Inventing a formula to predict people’s perfect partners doesn’t equate to love in this contemporary YA novel that New York Times bestsellers Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick call “honest, raw, and breathtakingly real.”
College freshman Grace Tang never meant to rewrite the rules of love. She came to college to move on from a grief-stricken senior year and to start anew. So she follows a predictable routine: Attend class, study, go home and visit her dad every weekend. She doesn’t leave any room in her life for outliers or anomalies.
Then, Grace comes up with an algorithm for her statistics class to pair students with their perfect romantic partners. Though some people are skeptical, like Julia, Grace’s prickly coworker, Grace is confident that her program will take all the drama out of relationships. That’s why she keeps trying to make things work with her match, a guy named Jamie. But as the semester goes on and she grows closer to Julia, Grace starts to question who she’s really attracted to.
In award-winning author Christina Li’s YA debut, Grace will have to make a choice between the tidy equations she knows will protect her from heartbreak or the possibility that true love doesn’t follow any formula.
Customer Reviews
Great Coming of Age
As an Asian American queer woman, this book hits close to home. This book is a slow burn with getting to the love stories, but, it’s worth it. True Love and Other Impossible Odds has twists and turns, inducing emotions with character backgrounds and development. It’s a roller coaster. But when you get off, when you’re done, it’s like you want to get back on. Grace is this newly 18 year old trying to navigate her life in her first year of college and the unraveling of her story and her struggles. Her obsession over this algorithm is inevitable, but her realization that love is more than numbers is eye opening, especially with all of dating apps we have nowadays. We look for people who share the same interests, beliefs, and values but that isn’t always the kind of person you fall in love with. Having her come to terms with her sexuality had great progression, because in ways, it was the same for me. Thank you Christina Li for writing True Love and Other Impossible Odds.