“Emmy & Oliver” by Robin Benway

The only way I could describe what kissing him felt like was, like the last day of school, knowing that months of freedom and sunshine lay before you, the feeling that you could do anything you wanted and time stretched out in endless possibilities.

—Robin Benway in Emmy & Oliver

That's when I first learned about true frustration, that wrenching ache when the thing that matters most to you barely makes a ripple in other people's lives.

—Robin Benway in Emmy & Oliver

relationships pain frustration ache

About Robin Benway

Robin Benway is an author of young adult fiction from Orange County, California, US, most known for her novel Far from the Tree, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

[from Wikipedia]

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