Title: Let's Get Lost
Author: Adi
Alsaid
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Publisher: 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.
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
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.
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What Inspires Adi to Write
I think people will never tire of
asking this question of authors because we never tire of the answer, which, as
far as I know, always has been and always will be: Everything.
If life in its entirety did not
inspire us to write, we wouldn’t be writers. Obviously, we don’t walk around
constantly inspired by every little thing around us, because that would make us
go insane. But the reason that stories keep getting churned out, published or
unpublished, it’s because writers can find inspiration anywhere, in any little
detail of life, at any time, whether we like it or not.
The difference, of course, is how
that inspiration gets turned into a story, what each writer connects to and
finds worthy of writing about. In the little Q&A that included in a flap in
the amazing-looking ARC of Let’s Get Lost, I said that what usually does
it for me is people. To delve a little further, I think most of my writing is
inspired by the need to explore the connections between people.
The muse itself, whatever
catalyst sets me off exploring those connections in a story, well that can be
absolutely anything. A little scene from daily life, a reaction to another
story. An overheard line of dialogue, a dream, thin air. A bush, or a guy
walking past a bush, or the guy’s bushy beard, or the thought of a world
without bushes or beards or guys and how the people in that world would
interact with one another, and maybe of just one teen living within that world.
There’s a story in everything, it only requires an author to come along and think so.
There’s a story in everything, it only requires an author to come along and think so.
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2 comments:
I'd love to go to India, it's so beautiful in pictures!
New Zealand. Absolutely.
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