Back When You Were Easier to Love

What�s worse than getting dumped? Not even knowing if you�ve been dumped. Joy got no goodbye, and certainly no explanation when Zan�the love of her life and the only good thing about stifling, backward Haven, Utah�unceremoniously and unexpectedly left for college a year early. Joy needs closure almost as much as she needs Zan, so she heads for California, and Zan, riding shotgun beside Zan�s former-best-friend Noah.

Original and insightful, quirky and crushing, Joy�s story is told in surprising and artfully shifting flashbacks between her life then and now. Exquisite craft and wry, relatable humor signal the arrival of Emily Wing Smith as a breakout talent.