Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970) is an American novelist who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Born in Illinois, Dessen graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her first book, That Summer, was published in 1996. She has since published more than a dozen other novels and novellas....
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
How disappointing when people succumb to what is expected of them.
—Lauren Groff in Arcadia
—Helen Macdonald in H is for Hawk