![]() The story sort of jumped from point to point quickly, and certain important information and plot points were skimmed over. It felt very disjointed and at many points throughout the story, I was left thinking “Wait, what happened?!?!”. ![]() One thing, I didn’t love about this book, was the writing structure. It was also very enlightening to see how these two characters expressed their concerns and fears, even how they dealt with the hardships they were facing. I’m such a sucker for anything cute and damn their text relationship was soooo cute. I’m not going to lie, I was smiling like an idiot. ![]() I enjoyed a lot of aspects of this book: The diversity of the main characters and the complexity of both their unique situations, but I especially loved the relationship between Penny and Sam. However, she did grow on me and I enjoyed her character flaws and the complexity of her character as it made her feel very real. She was so funny, and I adored that about her straight away, but for a decent chunk of the book, I found her to be very one toned and boring, and sometimes very judgemental and rude. Penny in particular took awhile to grow on me. While they’re both very smart and funny, they are complex characters with a lot of emotional baggage, and in the beginning while I found them both to be interesting, I struggled to connect with them. Both our main characters are very quick witted and sassy. In the beginning, it was quickly made apparent that this book was going to be full of so much wit. However, thankfully, Emergency contact is one of those pretty books that also delivers with an enjoyable story. I have such a soft spot in my heart for pretty books (as I’m sure a lot of us do). I’m one of those shameless book cover buying people. If I’m being 100% honest, my interest in this book first began simply because the cover is absolutely gorgeous. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch-via text-and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other. When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. Instead, the book offers an insatiable curiosity about how it is we keep finding ways to hold onto one another.For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Hybrid in form and set in New England, West Texas, and a landlocked province of China, among other places, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency refuses neat categorizations and pat answers. With irrepressible humor and play, these anarchic poems celebrate life, despite all that would crush aliveness. And sometimes, its pages record the dropping of a call, a failure or refusal to pick up. Whispered-in-a-classroom emergency calls. Always at work in the wrecked heart of this new collection is a switchboard operator, picking up and connecting calls. In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings, and the COVID-19 pandemic. What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? * Page count (is hours count rounded up for audiobooks): 3 ![]() * Author(s) name(s): Chen Chen (Author, Narrator) * Title: Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency Please add the Audible edition - B0C9G2STHD - of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen (.
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