Instructions for Dancing

Product Description #1New York TimesBestselling Author OfEverything, EverythingAndThe Sun Is Also A StarNicola Yoon Is Back With Her Eagerly Anticipated Third Novel. With All The Heart And Hope Of Her Last Two Books, This Is An Utterly Unique Romance.Evie Thomas DoesnT Believe In Love Anymore. Especially After The Strangest Thing Occurs One Otherwise Ordinary Afternoon: She Witnesses A Couple Kiss And Is Overcome With A Vision Of How Their Romance Began . . . And How It Will End. After All, Even The Greatest Love Stories End With A Broken Heart, Eventually.As Evie Tries To Understand Why This Is Happening, She Finds Herself At La Brea Dance Studio, Learning To Waltz, Fox-Trot, And Tango With A Boy Named X. X Is Everything That Evie Is Not: Adventurous, Passionate, Daring. His Philosophy Is To Say Yes To Everything--Including Entering A Ballroom Dance Competition With A Girl HeS Only Just Met.Falling For X Is Definitely Not What Evie Had In Mind. If Her Visions Of Heartbreak Have Taught Her Anything, ItS That No One Escapes Love Unscathed. But As She And X Dance Around And Toward Each Other, Evie Is Forced To Question All She Thought She Knew About Life And Love. In The End, Is Love Worth The Risk? Review Praise For Instructions For Dancing:A Remarkable, Irresistible Love Story That Will Linger Long After Readers Turn The Final Page.-Kirkus, Starred ReviewPraise For Nicola Yoon:AnExhilarating, HopefulNovel Exploring Identity, Family, The Love Of Science And The Science Of Love, Dark Matter And Interconnectedness--Is About Seeing And Being Seen And The Possibility Of Love... And It Shines.-Shelf Awareness,Starred ReviewMoving AndSuspenseful. -Publishers Weekly,Starred Review Lyrical And Sweeping,Full Of Hope, Heartbreak, Fate. . . And The Universal Beating Of The Human Heart. -Booklist,Starred Review Fresh And Compelling.-TheHorn Book, Starred Review With Appeal To Cynics And Romantics Alike, ThisProfoundExploration Of Life And Love Tempers Harsh Realities With The Beauty Of Hope In A Way That Is Both Deeply Moving And Satisfying.-Kirkus, Starred ReviewA Love Story That Is SmartWithout Being Cynical, Heartwarming Without Being Cloying, And Schmaltzy In All The Best Ways.-TheBulletin, Starred Review[A] Fresh,MovingDebut. -Entertainment WeeklyGorgeousAndLyrical. -The New York Times Book ReviewWill Give You Butterflies. -SeventeenADo-Not-MissFor Fans Of John Green And Rainbow Rowell (Aka Everyone). -JustineYa Book Lovers,Your Newest ObsessionIs Here.-Mtv About The Author Nicola Yoon Is The Author Of The #1New York Times Bestsellersthe Sun Is Also A Star Andeverything, Everything, Both Of Which Have Been Turned Into Major Motion Pictures. She Grew Up In Jamaica And Brooklyn And Lives In Los Angeles With Her Husband, Novelist David Yoon, And Their Daughter. SheS Also A Hopeless Romantic Who Firmly Believes That You Can Fall In Love In An Instant And That It Can Last Forever. Excerpt. Reprinted By Permission. All Rights Reserved. Chapter 1A Better Version Of MeBooks DonT Work Their Magic On Me Anymore. It Used To Be That If I Was In A Funk Or In The Barren Hinterland Between Sad And Mad, I Could Just Pluck Any Random One From My Favorites Shelf And Settle Into My Fuzzy Pink Chair For A Good Read. By Chapter Three--Chapter Four At The Very Latest--ID Be Feeling Better.These Days, Though, The Books Are Nothing But Letters Arranged Into Correctly Spelled Words, Arranged Into Grammatically Correct Sentences And Well-Structured Paragraphs And Thematically Cohesive Chapters. TheyRe No Longer Magical And Transporting.In A Past Life I Was A Librarian, So My Books Are Arranged By Genre. Until I Started Giving Them Away, The Contemporary Romance Section Was The Biggest. My Favorite Of All Time Is Cupcakes And Kisses. I Pull It Down From My Shelf And Flip Through It, Giving I