Circa

Thank you, Mariner Books, and TLCBookTours for this gifted copy of Circa.

𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘵 𝘚𝘶𝘨𝘢𝘳 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘷𝘯𝘪 𝘋𝘰𝘴𝘩𝘪, 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘨𝘶𝘵-𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘢 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰, 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥𝘺, 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺'𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴.

On the cusp of her eighteenth birthday, Heera and her best friends, siblings Marie and Marco, tease the fun out of life in Raleigh, North Carolina, with acts of rebellion and delinquency. They paint the town’s water towers with red anarchy symbols and hang out at the local bus station to pickpocket money for their Great Escape to New York. But no matter how much Heera defies her strict upbringing, she’s always avoided any real danger—until one devastating night changes everything.

In its wake, Marco reinvents himself as Crash and spends his days womanizing and burning through a string of jobs. Meanwhile, Heera’s dream to go to college in New York is suddenly upended. Over the years, Heera’s and Crash’s paths cross and recross on a journey of dreams, desires, jealousies, and betrayals.

Heart-wrenching, darkly funny, and buoyed by gorgeous prose, Circa is at once an irresistible love story and a portrait of a young woman torn between duty and her own survival, between obligation and freedom.