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If I Stay meets Your Name in Dustin Thao's You've Reached Sam, a heartfelt audiobook about love and loss and what it means to say goodbye.
Seventeen-year-old Julie Clarke has her future all planned out—move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city; spend a summer in Japan. But then Sam dies. And everything changes.
Heartbroken, Julie skips his funeral, throws out his belongings, and tries everything to forget him. But a message Sam left behind in her yearbook forces memories to return. Desperate to hear him one more time, Julie calls Sam's cell phone just to listen to his voice mail recording. And Sam picks up the phone.
The connection is temporary. But hearing Sam's voice makes Julie fall for him all over again and with each call, it becomes harder to let him go.
What would you do if you had a second chance at goodbye?
A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books
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- ISBN: 9781250820822
- File size: 286988 KB
- Duration: 09:57:53
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Publisher's Weekly
October 4, 2021
In Thao’s uneven debut, white high school senior and aspiring writer Julie Clarke must find a way to navigate her future after the death of her Japanese American boyfriend, Sam Obayashi, a big dreamer and music lover who died tragically one night while on his way to pick her up. After skipping his funeral and getting rid of most of his things in an attempt to move forward, she calls his phone one last time—and is stunned when he answers. Though Sam only knows that he’s “somewhere,” he is sure that if he ever calls Julie and she doesn’t pick up, their connection will end forever. Thao smartly keeps the logistics vague, effectively depicting Julie’s grieving process and her attempts to balance staying connected to Sam while being present for friends for whom his death is final—including Sam’s cousin Mika and best friend Oliver. While some secondary story lines—one exploring Julie’s mother’s paranoia and another involving Sam’s younger brother—are underdeveloped, the unique premise and authentic depiction of grief holds plenty of appeal. Ages 12–up. Agent: Thao Le, Sandra Dijkstra Literary.
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