If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldnât have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldnât have hit her head on the steps. She wouldnât have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her âChief.â Sheâd know about her momâs new family. Sheâd know about her dadâs fiancÃĐe. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldnât have wanted to kiss him back.
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But Naomi picked heads.
After her remarkable debut, Gabrielle Zevin has crafted an imaginative second novel all about love and second chances.