Permanent Record by Mary H. K. Choi

Permanent Record

by Mary H. K. Choi

A New York Times bestseller!

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On paper, college dropout Pablo Rind doesn't have a whole lot going for him. His graveyard shift at a twenty-four-hour deli in Brooklyn is a struggle. Plus, he's up to his eyeballs in credit card debt. Never mind the state of his student loans.

Pop juggernaut Leanna Smart has enough social media followers to populate whole continents. The brand is unstoppable. She graduated from child stardom to become an international icon and her adult life is a queasy blur of private planes, aspirational hotel rooms, and strangers screaming for her just to notice them.

When Leanna and Pablo meet at 5:00 a.m. at the bodega in the dead of winter it's absurd to think they'd be A Thing. But as they discover who they are, who they want to be, and how to defy the deafening expectations of everyone else, Leanna and Pablo turn to each other. Which, of course, is when things get properly complicated.

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PRAISE FOR PERMANENT RECORD

'Captivating, with quotable one-liners pinging on every page' The New York Times

'Scintillating' Financial Times

'This is the kind of book you get a crush on as you read' Wired

'This astounding follow-up to her debut, Emergency Contact, proves Choi is a spokesperson for the way we communicate (and strive, and love) now' Refinery29, Best Books of September

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Read for free on RivetedLit.com Dec 16th. I made it to page 84.

It was free for only a day. I liked what I read, but I obviously easily stopped reading it and didn't even feel pressured to get it done on a deadline.

It couldn't capture me. I really missed having the girl LI POV. And the poor boy having a day with a pop star girl totally worked for me with Somewhere Only We Know, which got 5 Stars.

I loved a lot of what Pablo said, but not what he did. And the IDEA of his character, and his little brother, and family friends.

I have no opinion on Pop Star because I only briefly saw her for like 4 pages where she bought junk food while glammed out and freezing. And it was all in Pablo's freaking out POV.

I didn't have a hard time understanding the references and junk food in context, but I didn't KNOW know them, so they didn't help me connect.

Too bad really. I'll keep an eye out on future works because it's all there, just not for me this time.

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