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Smith, Emily Wing

Back When You Were Easier to Love

296 pp. | Dutton | April, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-525-42199-3 $16.99
(3) YA Joy's boyfriend, unconventional Zan, escapes their ultra-Mormon Utah town for the freedoms of college in California. Joy coerces Zan's friend Noah into a road trip to be with Zan, only to discover that he was also eager to escape her. The humanizing of too-good-to-be-true Zan and some (slight) boundary-pushing by otherwise vanilla Joy and Noah add some depth to this romance.
Reviewer: Katie Bircher

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