—Michael Cart
“Rabb’s funny and big-hearted second novel is bursting with resonant themes of love, death, family, art and identity, fully embodied in a diverse cast of wonderfully fallible and entertaining characters.”
—New York Times Book Review
“This feminist rom-com reminds us it’s never about the boy but the joyride.”
—O magazine
“With a full cast of multidimensional characters, this novel explores the complex nature of relationships and the many faces of grief and love with equal parts humor and poignancy.”
—School Library Journal
“Humor and depth. Often entertainingly snarky.”
—The Horn Book
“Margo Rabb plumbs the complications of friendships and family in Kissing in America, a young adult novel that also deftly weaves humor and snippets of poetry into its road-trip story. A beautifully crafted coming-of-age story that illuminates the layers of relationships through Eva and Annie’s adventures on the road.”
—Austin Statesman
“It made me laugh until I choked, and it made me cry—it’s a book that made my heart feel full.”
—Leila Roy, Kirkus Reviews blog
“Tender, expansive. Eva is a likable, sympathetic character whose horizons expand literally—during a New York–to-LA bus trip with a friend—and metaphorically.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Kissing in America is a road-trip story with humor and heart.”
—Boston Globe
BOOKS BY MARGO RABB
Cures for Heartbreak
CREDITS
Cover art © 2016 by We Are Grownup Ltd.
Cover design by Kate J. Engbring
COPYRIGHT
“How to Survive a Funeral” was published in significantly different form under the title “Black Humor” in Seventeen, August 2000; a revised section of the story also appeared under the title “Ghost Story” in One Story, Issue 24, 2003.
“World History” was published in different form in the anthology American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Stories by Emerging Writers, 9th Edition, Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, 1997.
“Hospital Food” appeared in significantly different form under the title “Rearranging My Heart” in Seventeen, May 1997.
“My Mother’s First Love” was published in different form under the title “My Mother’s First Lover” in The Atlantic Monthly, November 1998, and reprinted in Best New American Voices, 2000.
“How to Find Love” was published in different form in Glimmer Train Stories, Winter 2000, and reprinted in Mother Knows: 24 Tales of Motherhood, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Fictional “How to Find Love” excerpt adapted from a passage in Having It All, copyright © 1982 by Helen Gurley Brown.
“Seduce Me” was published in different form under the title “Fortune” in Shenandoah, Summer 2002, and published in significantly different form in Seventeen, December 2001.
CURES FOR HEARTBREAK. Copyright © 2007 by Margo Rabb. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015958400
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Originally published by Delacorte Press, 2007
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