Let's Get Lost
by Adi
Alsaid
Release Date: 07/29/14
Harlequin Teen
Summary from Goodreads:
Five strangers.
Countless adventures. One epic way to get lost.
Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone the most.
There's HUDSON, a small-town mechanic who is willing to throw away his dreams for true love. And BREE, a runaway who seizes every Tuesday—and a few stolen goods along the way. ELLIOT believes in happy endings…until his own life goes off-script. And SONIA worries that when she lost her boyfriend, she also lost the ability to love.
Hudson, Bree, Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And when Leila leaves them, their lives are forever changed. But it is during Leila's own 4,268-mile journey that she discovers the most important truth— sometimes, what you need most is right where you started. And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to get lost along the way.
Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone the most.
There's HUDSON, a small-town mechanic who is willing to throw away his dreams for true love. And BREE, a runaway who seizes every Tuesday—and a few stolen goods along the way. ELLIOT believes in happy endings…until his own life goes off-script. And SONIA worries that when she lost her boyfriend, she also lost the ability to love.
Hudson, Bree, Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And when Leila leaves them, their lives are forever changed. But it is during Leila's own 4,268-mile journey that she discovers the most important truth— sometimes, what you need most is right where you started. And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to get lost along the way.
Early Praise:
“Reminiscent of John Green’s Paper
Towns and road trip novels that feature a teen paving the way to
adulthood, Alsaid’s debut is a gem among contemporary YA novels.” – School
Library Journal
“Five love stories, beautifully woven
together by a special girl in search of adventure, hope, and full
appreciation of life’s simple pleasures. A do-not-miss. ” – Justine Magazine
“Moving and poignant.” - Glitter Magazine
“An entertaining and romantic road-trip
debut.” – Kirkus
"Leila's quest to find the Northern
Lights takes readers on a captivating cross-country journey, where four
strangers' adventures collide into one riveting tale of finding yourself." ―YABooksCentral.com
“This will likely be a popular summer hit, especially for older teen about to embark on their own journeys of self-discovery.” –Booklist
“This will likely be a popular summer hit, especially for older teen about to embark on their own journeys of self-discovery.” –Booklist
About the Author
Adi Alsaid was born and raised in Mexico City, then studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. While in class, he mostly read fiction and continuously failed to fill out crossword puzzles, so it's no surprise that after graduating, he did not go into business world but rather packed up his apartment into his car and escaped to the California coastline to become a writer. He's now back in his hometown, where he writes, coaches high school and elementary basketball, and has perfected the art of making every dish he eats or cooks as spicy as possible. In addition to Mexico, he's lived in Tel Aviv, Las Vegas, and Monterey, California. A tingly feeling in his feet tells him more places will eventually be added to the list. Let's Get Lost is his YA debut.
Let's Get Lost Website!
Adi Alsaid was born and raised in Mexico City, then studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. While in class, he mostly read fiction and continuously failed to fill out crossword puzzles, so it's no surprise that after graduating, he did not go into business world but rather packed up his apartment into his car and escaped to the California coastline to become a writer. He's now back in his hometown, where he writes, coaches high school and elementary basketball, and has perfected the art of making every dish he eats or cooks as spicy as possible. In addition to Mexico, he's lived in Tel Aviv, Las Vegas, and Monterey, California. A tingly feeling in his feet tells him more places will eventually be added to the list. Let's Get Lost is his YA debut.
Let's Get Lost Website!
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GUEST POST: Adi’s
First Trip Alone
My
sister likes to say that before I came back from my trip to Israel, she’d never
heard me speak. That’s probably an exaggeration, but not an extreme one. When I
boarded the plane to Israel on the eve of my eighteenth birthday, I was a shy
kid, reserved, talkative only with my closest friends.
My
brother puts it a different way: “Before, you couldn’t decide if you cared or
not. Then you decided you didn’t.” He said this when we shared an apartment in
college, when I was doing things like taking spontaneous road trips to Baker,
California just to have lunch, or founding a student organization at UNLV
called Students for the Advancement of Silliness. I brought my first girlfriend
to the top floor of a library and rained down thirty notecards with book
quotations on them. I wrote editorials in the school newspaper about choosing
to be happier.
Let
me be clear about this: I didn’t notice it happening. In Israel, I read a lot.
I walked around a lot. Though fluent in Hebrew, I didn’t speak a lot, because
outside of my grandmother and some cousins, I didn’t know anyone. I could have
made friends on the basketball courts where I played, or the bar full of
American expats and travelers from all over the world, but I didn’t. By the end
I was having more and more conversations with people there, because I’d learned
that if I didn’t I could go days without saying a word. But that didn’t feel
like growth; it just felt like loneliness, which wasn’t anything new. I had fun
in Israel, and though I’d imagined something life-changing (I brought a
notebook, thinking that maybe I’d write a book while there), I left thinking it
hadn’t happened. The first day I returned to Mexico and had coffee with a
friend, within twenty minutes, she said, “You’ve changed.”
It’s
not like I went to Israel and came back a new person. I was simply more myself.
The layer of shyness that usually hid parts of me from the world was washed
away by the Mediterranean, or burned away from my skin from the suntan I gained
on the beaches of Tel Aviv. I broke out of my proverbial shell, deciding, as my
brother pointed out, that I no longer cared to reside within it.
Here’s
what I’m trying to get at, and why Leila’s travels in Let’s Get Lost
serve as the perfect backdrop to five coming-of-age stories: Travel leads to
self-discovery. You grow, even if you don’t notice it happening. Especially if
you do it at the age I did, the age the characters in the book are, the world
seeps into your cracks and pulls you further out.
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