01923cam a2200325 4500 354779309 TxAuBib 20180821120000.0 171114s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017048139 9781534408968 1534408967 (OCoLC)989964464 TxAuBib Choi, Mary H. K. Emergency contact / Mary H.K. Choi. First edition. New York : Simon & Schuster BYFR, [2018] 394 pages ; 22 cm. When Penny Lee 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. Sam is stuck, literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too; he knows that this is the chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he's a famous movie director but right life is really testing him. When they cross paths it's a collision of unbearable awkwardness. But as they stay in touch via text and share their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other. After a chance encounter, Penny and Sam become each other's emergency contacts and find themselves falling in love digitally, without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other. Provided by publisher. 20180821. Dating (Social customs) Young adult fiction. Schools Young adult fiction. College students Young adult fiction. Text messages (Cell phone systems) Young adult fiction. Austin (Tex) Young adult fiction. College stories Young adult fiction. Love stories Young adult fiction.