Let's Get Lost
by Adi
Alsaid
Release Date: 07/29/14
Harlequin Teen
Summary from Goodreads:
Five strangers.
Countless adventures. One epic way to get lost.
Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone the most.
There's HUDSON, a small-town mechanic who is willing to throw away his dreams for true love. And BREE, a runaway who seizes every Tuesday—and a few stolen goods along the way. ELLIOT believes in happy endings…until his own life goes off-script. And SONIA worries that when she lost her boyfriend, she also lost the ability to love.
Hudson, Bree, Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And when Leila leaves them, their lives are forever changed. But it is during Leila's own 4,268-mile journey that she discovers the most important truth— sometimes, what you need most is right where you started. And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to get lost along the way.
Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone the most.
There's HUDSON, a small-town mechanic who is willing to throw away his dreams for true love. And BREE, a runaway who seizes every Tuesday—and a few stolen goods along the way. ELLIOT believes in happy endings…until his own life goes off-script. And SONIA worries that when she lost her boyfriend, she also lost the ability to love.
Hudson, Bree, Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And when Leila leaves them, their lives are forever changed. But it is during Leila's own 4,268-mile journey that she discovers the most important truth— sometimes, what you need most is right where you started. And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to get lost along the way.
Early Praise:
“Reminiscent of John Green’s Paper
Towns and road trip novels that feature a teen paving the way to
adulthood, Alsaid’s debut is a gem among contemporary YA novels.” – School
Library Journal
“Five love stories, beautifully woven
together by a special girl in search of adventure, hope, and full
appreciation of life’s simple pleasures. A do-not-miss. ” – Justine Magazine
“Moving and poignant.” - Glitter Magazine
“An entertaining and romantic road-trip
debut.” – Kirkus
"Leila's quest to find the Northern
Lights takes readers on a captivating cross-country journey, where four
strangers' adventures collide into one riveting tale of finding yourself." ―YABooksCentral.com
“This will likely be a popular summer hit, especially for older teen about to embark on their own journeys of self-discovery.” –Booklist
Excerpt
“This will likely be a popular summer hit, especially for older teen about to embark on their own journeys of self-discovery.” –Booklist
Excerpt
HUDSON
COULD HEAR the car’s engine from blocks away. He stepped outside
the garage and closed his eyes, listening, picking apart the sounds
so that he would know exactly what he’d have to fix before he even
popped the hood.
Standing
there against the garage, listening to the still-far-off car, Hudson
could forget about everything else. About school and girls and his
future and whether his friends were actually jackasses or just acting
like them. With his eyes closed, Hudson could reduce the world to a
single engine and nothing more; a world where he could not only name
every little part but knew what it was for, how it worked, how to fix
it.
He
opened his eyes when he heard the car’s brakes chirp as it slowed
to turn into the garage. It was an old Plymouth Acclaim, the kind of
car you either happily sent off to die or loved with your entire
heart and refused to let go of. It had seen better days, its red
paint job chipped and faded, its muffler not doing much muffling. He
waved the driver forward to where he was standing. He was still
identifying the car’s problems when the girl killed the engine and
climbed out.
He
only allowed himself a quick glance at her, knowing as soon as he saw
her that she was the kind of girl who could make you think your life
was not complete unless she was in it. She was a jumble of
contradictions: short but with long legs, fierce green eyes but a
kind expression, baby-faced but wise. She was wearing a snug, plain
red T-shirt that matched her car. Her hair was down, the black locks
reaching just past her chin.
“Afternoon,”
she said, offering a polite smile.
He
replied in kind, trying to adopt the professional tone he used with
most customers. He asked her to pop the hood and then walked to the
front of the car to release the latch. He meant to bury himself in
work right away, but against instinct he stole another glance. How
long would the memory of her face haunt him? Days? Weeks? “You
having trouble with anything specific?”
“Well,
not really,” she said, slipping her hands into the back pockets
of her shorts, which made her posture change in a way Hudson couldn’t
help but notice. The quiet world outside the garage noticed the
change in her posture, the damp Mississippi air noticed, even the
various grease stains spread out on the garage floor noticed. “I
just got started on a road trip, and it’s making a lot of noise, so
I wanted to be sure it’s in shape.”
Hudson
grabbed a clean rag off a nearby shelf and checked the oil and the
transmission fluid. He liked working in relative silence, nothing but
the subtle sound of the cooling engine, his hands and tools on the
machine. Something about this girl, though, made him chatty. “Where
you goin’?”
“North,”
she said. “All the way north.”
“You
from around here?” He suddenly felt self-conscious about his drawl,
the hitch in his vowels, the overall lackluster quality of his
presence.
“Nope.
You?”
He
chuckled as he ran his hands around the engine, checking for cracks
in belts. “Born and raised.”
About the Author
Adi Alsaid was born and raised in Mexico City, then studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. While in class, he mostly read fiction and continuously failed to fill out crossword puzzles, so it's no surprise that after graduating, he did not go into business world but rather packed up his apartment into his car and escaped to the California coastline to become a writer. He's now back in his hometown, where he writes, coaches high school and elementary basketball, and has perfected the art of making every dish he eats or cooks as spicy as possible. In addition to Mexico, he's lived in Tel Aviv, Las Vegas, and Monterey, California. A tingly feeling in his feet tells him more places will eventually be added to the list. Let's Get Lost is his YA debut.
Let's Get Lost Website!
Adi Alsaid was born and raised in Mexico City, then studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. While in class, he mostly read fiction and continuously failed to fill out crossword puzzles, so it's no surprise that after graduating, he did not go into business world but rather packed up his apartment into his car and escaped to the California coastline to become a writer. He's now back in his hometown, where he writes, coaches high school and elementary basketball, and has perfected the art of making every dish he eats or cooks as spicy as possible. In addition to Mexico, he's lived in Tel Aviv, Las Vegas, and Monterey, California. A tingly feeling in his feet tells him more places will eventually be added to the list. Let's Get Lost is his YA debut.
Let's Get Lost Website!
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