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From School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up—This debut novel examines modern relationships in the age of smart phones. Penny Lee leaves behind her humdrum high school years and meets her new college roommate Jude, who introduces Penny to her tattooed, mysterious, and sexy young uncle, Sam. After a strange chance encounter, Sam and Penny become each other's emergency contact. Choi creates an up-to-date and realistic contemporary romance by upending the love story trope. Miscues and miscommunications, which often propel romantic plots forward, are replaced by open and constant screen-to-screen communication. The tension exists in the development of the relationship, starting with just texts, and evolving to a multi-platform, "in real life" friendship. In alternating chapters, Penny and Sam reveal their innermost thoughts. Choi explores love, family issues, identity, loneliness, and acceptance in the context of 24/7 social media. Despite the ever-present contact, deeply connecting with another human being remains remarkably difficult. Choi creates another layer of meaning by addressing the microaggressions that Penny, who is Korean American, faces. The protagonist's response is handled deftly. An internal monologue includes a multiple-choice list of potential reactions to external situations that will ring true with readers and make them appreciate Penny's wry sense of humor and direct approach. VERDICT A highly recommended purchase for the teens who enjoy realistic relationship fiction. Recommended for fans of Nicola Yoon's Everything, Everything and Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park.—Eva Thaler-Sroussi, Needham Free Public Library, MA
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“Mary H.K Choi’s Emergency Contact is one of the best debuts of the year and one of the first YA novels to really capture the depth and complexities of a text-based relationship.” (The Globe and Mail)* "Choi sensitively shows the evolution of two lonely, complicated people who slowly emerge from their shells to risk an intimate relationship. Her sharp wit and skillful character development...ensure that readers will feel that they know Penny and Sam inside and out before the gratifying conclusion." (Publisher's Weekly - starred review January 1, 2018)"Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book." (Rainbow Rowell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fangirl)* "Choi creates an up-to-date and realistic contemporary romance by upending the love story trope....A highly recommended purchase for the teens who enjoy realistic relationship fiction. Recommended for fans of Nicola Yoon’s Everything, Everything and Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park." (School Library Journal - starred review February 1, 2018)"Readers will swoon over Emergency Contact. Choi has a knack for creating relatable characters, and this quirky, socially awkward love story will keep your cheeks rosy with every page....Emergency Contact is the perfect book for those who root for the underdog and believe that broken people can heal together." (RT Book Reviews March 1, 2018)"Blushingly tender and piquant...Choi... inserts timely issues like sexual assault, cultural appropriation and even DACA into her characters’ intimate conversations, but it is her examination of digital vs. F2F communication that feels the most immediate." (The New York Times Book Review March 2, 2018)"Readers who enjoyed the unorthodox evolution of romance in Nicola Yoon’s Everything, Everything (2015) will like this debut novel." (Booklist March 7, 2018)"Penny somehow broke down all my walls. Her tech became incidental and her voice endearing, and just like that, I was hooked. Even the texts feel very natural and elegantly woven into the narration.There is much more to both Sam and Penny than quirky character traits and witty repartee....While the story does traffic in the heart flutter of romance that is tantalizingly out of reach, its emotional core goes deep." (NPR March 29, 2018)"Whip-smart, hilarious and poignant...Choi's prose is to be savored....Along with the biting wit and sharp observations, Choi's marvelous novel offers a perceptive exercise on the divide between digital and in-person communication - and how daunting it can be to 'escalate' to that face to face encounter." (The Buffalo News March 29, 2018)"A tender, texting-based teen romance." (Entertainment Weekly)
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Product details
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition (March 27, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1534408967
ISBN-13: 978-1534408968
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 1.2 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
179 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#19,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
6 out of 5 stars.This is the kind of book I can only review by fangirl screaming in all caps. It's just embarrassing.I would have loved it just for the characters-I'm a sucker for deep vulnerability, or writer characters, or guys named Sam, or tattoos, or guys who bake, or friends to lovers, so really this book was a buffet platter of favorites for me. I would have loved it just for the voice: super witty and down to earth and contemporary feeling. The scent descriptions were hilarious (a gas station rose that smells like printer cartridges) and the descriptions in general were so creative, unique and THATYESTHAT that I was highlighting like crazy and I read like 20 of them out loud to my husband (like "a guy with a face like a weak handshake"). Even if it weren't for those things, I would have loved this book for the very meta story within a story that the MC was writing-a story that underlines and flips and then flips again the themes of the book so you don't know if Penny is trapped in her digital world and waiting to be brought out, or if she's choosing to ignore her real world, or if her digital world really is better, or if the relationship is about her and her boyfriend or her and her mom...it's brilliant at every step, and the mom/Penny argument at the end was crazy amazing. It sounded so much like people I've known, and I could really see both people's perspectives.Sam was an utter delight, and at times I just hurt because I liked him and Penny so much. I want to buy another 10 books by this author immediately and I'm so sad there aren't yet ten more books to buy. I read this one in half a day and now I'm stuck wishing there was more.
Penny Lee heads off to college and leaves behind a lot of things that she just could not relate to or even like. Her mother is a MILF and that drives her crazy. She has a boyfriend that is the polar opposite of her, that would probably thrill any other girl in their high school, but not Penny. Penny is different. When she meets her roommate’s “uncle†Sam at the coffee shop, there is something that draws her to him. Maybe it’s his curly hair or all his tattoos. She happens to be on the scene when he suffers from a panic attack (he is sure it is a heart attack) and helps him through it. She becomes his emergency contact. That starts a string of text messages that evolve throughout the story.Sam is dealing with his on/off girlfriend. They go through a few things which you will have to read to find out about but he finds himself wanting to talk to Penny more than anyone. The texts become phone calls and then evolve into much more. Will they realize what it is they both really want?I have read a few books that were told in texts or emails but what I really loved about this one is that it wasn’t only that. The texts were like the icing on the cake because we learned so much about them throughout the whole book, not just in their messages. They were the cutest couple and if you do not root for them to get together, I wonder if you even have a soul. I admit I almost cheered when Penny’s facade started to crack a little. I admit I cried when she would open up to other people, her fear was so palpable. This is just such a lovely book and I am so glad that I saw someone on one of my online book groups rave about it.
Alright. OK. So I'm definitely in the minority here. Wow...read some brutal reviews out there on this book, which truly surprised me. I did not feel this much negativity or dislike when reading this book at all. In fact, I felt it was one of the most honest representations of teenagers, girls, daughters, students, white girls, and non-white girls.I really enjoyed reading this book, and have it categorized as one of my favorites this year. I'm sorry other readers felt so differently towards it. Is Penny annoying, well of course she is. She's meant to be, but throughout the book you start to discover more about why she is the way she is. I completely understand her inability to show emotion, even though she's one big ball of emotion on the inside, because I'm like that. Being originally Korean, I loved the references to the subtle racist remarks she gets on a regular basis, because again, as an Arab, and a Muslim, I get that ALL the time. And people think it's OK, because it's subtle, or because it's said as a joke, but you know what? No, it's not OK, and I love that Penny stands up for that. Was Penny slut-shaming her mom? I don't believe she was, I believe she was simply saying it as it is. Her mom is a mess. Her mom is a MILF. She's hot, she dresses so much younger than her age, is a huge flirt, and is dating guys left and right. And yes, if that was my mom, I'd be embarrassed as hell to be seen around her. That's just the truth. To get hospitalized for drug use, I would probably walk away from that in anger and disappointment as well.But you know what? It's not all bad. Because throughout the book, the character development was on point. All the characters, including secondary characters, were well-rounded. You see them develop as the story unfolds, you see Penny maturing, opening up, making friends, trusting more, and even forgiving her mom, asking for forgiveness and letting her in. There is redemption and change there, and it's not all one-sided either.But let's focus on Penny and Sam for a minute, because that was center stage and it was absolutely beautiful to read their story and how it unfolds. I loved that it was another story that relied hugely on digital communication, and it was done so well. Their conversations were amazing, their friendship, their support of each other was beautiful to read about. I loved the transition from texts to phone calls, to face to face - to at one point, an email. Oh my Lord, that email was everything.They both have a lot of issues. Serious issues. They were able to really open up to each other, and maybe a huge part of that is the digital wall that separated them. It was easy to open up to this person as long as it they never had to face each other, right?Except things don't always work out that way, and things do get complicated, and their lives are quite miserable - especially Sam's - but it's all part of the journey, and I never felt repelled by it. I thought Penny was very endearing, especially when she started opening up, and I loved how so much honestly was crammed into this book, giving you a face palm of reality.
Funny witty and poignant, Mary H.K. Choi writes characters that curl up in your consciousness and stay forever. Hard to put down, and even harder to finish because you won't want to say goodbye....
The texting banter and character complexity are sooooooo good. There are so many swoony moments and hilarious lines of dialogue and narrative. I loved it.Content warning: there is a discussion about a rape.
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