True Love and Other Impossible Odds by Christina Li

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Inventing a formula to predict people's perfect partners doesn't equate to love in this contemporary novel that New York Times bestsellers Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick call "honest, raw, and breathtakingly real." College freshman Grace Tang never meant to rewrite the rules of love. She came to college to move on from a grief-stricken senior year and to start anew. So, she follows a predictable routine: Attend class, study, go home, and visit her dad every weekend. She doesn't leave any room in her life for outliers or anomalies. Then, Grace comes up with an algorithm for her statistics class to pair students with their perfect romantic partners. Though some people are skeptical, like Julia, Grace's prickly coworker, Grace is confident that her program will take all the drama out of relationships. That's why she keeps trying to make things work with her match, a guy named Jamie. But as the semester goes on and she grows closer to Julia, Grace starts to question who she's really attracted to. In award-winning author Christina Li's YA debut, Grace will have to make a choice between the tidy equations she knows will protect her from heartbreak or the possibility that true love doesn't follow any formula.

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    • Christina Li Author
    • Publisher: HarperCollins
    • Publication Date: 05-14-2024
    • Page Count: 400
    • Hardcover
    • Fiction
    • 5.5 (w) x 8.25(h) x (d)
    • ISBN: 9780063246041
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11 months ago
from Colorado

awesome story set in college

Author Christina does an amazing job crafting a beautiful first-love story and cramming it chock-full of reality— family expectations, assignments, discovering yourself, and all of the other big things we can possibly go through while navigating college. Worth the read!

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1 year ago

Quite emotional

One of the things that Grace really wants to do is to be part of the Math Summer Program she wants to apply for in her college. And when a group project is her potential way to get in, she jumps in the chance to create an algorithm on who to fall in love with in her college campus. But she's learning that falling in love might not only involve the numbers in her algorithm. From the get go. you can tell that Grace is someone who's so reserve that there might be a reason why. And from the get go we learn why from the state of her family life, academic life, friendship life, and college life. This was such a roller coaster of emotions. And one of the things that I loved most about this book was how love was experienced, felt, and shared. It was amazing to see Grace not just navigate about falling in love, but also how she navigates the pieces in her life that she left behind. This was such a good book about rediscovering and learning about one's self. And knowing there's so mary things to still discover. This was a really good book and quite emotional too. * I received an eARC of this book

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