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The Impossible Vastness of Us

by Samantha Young · 2017

I know how to watch my back. I’m the only one that ever has. India Maxwell hasn’t just moved across the country—she’s plummeted to the bottom rung of the social ladder. It’s taken years to cover the mess of her home life… more

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Even if it doesn’t look like it from the outside, I think if you look closely enough you’ll see the right ending is the happy ending.” I
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Life is what you make it, no matter where you come from.
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What must it be like to want your parents' happiness instead of resenting them for it?
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Oh my God, why did he have to be such a romantic pain in my ass? “I’m
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You should win an award or something for most compassionate student. No, wait. I mean the most self-centered dipshit award.” Her
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Most of the time I feel like I can’t breathe inside my own life. Like I’m just existing. Not with you, though. I feel like I’m breathing fresh, clean air whenever I’m with you. I feel alive.
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I could live with whatever came next because now I had something I hadn't had a year ago. I now knew there were people like Finn in the world. That was something he gave me, and what that gift, he gave me more. He gave me faith. Hope. He gave me the things that would last long after everything else faded to an end.
You're strong. Stronger than you realise. That's your safe place, India.

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I know how to watch my back. I’m the only one that ever has.

India Maxwell hasn’t just moved across the country—she’s plummeted to the bottom rung of the social ladder. It’s taken years to cover the mess of her home life with a veneer of popularity. Now she’s living in one of Boston’s wealthiest neighborhoods with her mom’s fiancé and his daughter, Eloise. Thanks to her soon-to-be stepsister’s clique of friends, including Eloise’s gorgeous, arrogant boyfriend Finn, India feels like the one thing she hoped never to be seen as again: trash.

But India’s not alone in struggling to control the secrets of her past. Eloise and Finn, the school’s golden couple, aren’t all they seem to be. In fact, everyone’s life is infinitely more complex than it first appears. And as India grows closer to Finn and befriends Eloise, threatening the facades that hold them together, what’s left are truths t

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First published
2017
Genre
Romance
Goodreads rating
3.96 (5k ratings)

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