The release date for the English version of 'Emergency Contact' by
Mary H.K. Choi is Mar 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Penny Lee didn't think much of high school. She got by with good grades, had friends, and even though she managed to find a guy, he doesn't really know anything about her. Penny can't wait to leave everything behind when she moves seventy-nine miles and a gazillion light years away to attend college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to write.
Sam is stranded. monetarily, emotionally, symbolically, and literally. He sleeps on a mattress on the floor of an unoccupied storage room upstairs at the café where he works. He is aware that this terrible phase of his life will serve as inspiration for the day he becomes a well-known film director, but for the moment, his failing laptop and the seventeen dollars in his bank account are truly putting him to the test.
When Sam and Penny cross paths, it's more of an uncomfortable collision than a charming one. Nevertheless, they exchange phone numbers, keep in contact (by text), and quickly become digitally entwined, expressing their most intimate fantasies and darkest fears without the awkward awkwardness of having to meet in person.