<b>Instant <i>USA Today</i> bestseller!<br>&ldquo;Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful.&rdquo;&mdash;#1&#160;<i>New York Times</i>&#160;bestselling author Emily Giffin<br>&ldquo;Meet our bookish millennial heroine&mdash;a modern-day Elizabeth Bennet, if you will&hellip; Waxman&rsquo;s wit and wry humor stand out. She is funny and imaginative, and &ldquo;Bookish&rdquo; lands a step above run-of-the-mill romantic comedy fare.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>The Washington Post</i><br>&ldquo;Abbi Waxman offers up a quirky, eccentric romance that will charm any bookworm&hellip;. For anyone who&rsquo;s ever wondered if their greatest romance might come between the pages of books they read, Waxman offers a heartwarming tribute to that possibility.&rdquo;—<i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br>The author of <i>Other People&rsquo;s Houses</i> and <i>The Garden of Small Beginnings</i> delivers a quirky and charming novel chronicling the life of confirmed introvert Nina Hill as she does her best to fly under everyone's radar.</b><br> <b>&#160;</b><br> <b>Meet Nina Hill: A young woman supremely confident in her own...shell.</b><br> &#160;<br> The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book. <br> <i>&#160;</i><br> When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They're all&mdash;or mostly all&mdash;excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. To. Strangers. It's a disaster! And as if that wasn't enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. Doesn't he realize what a terrible idea that is?<br> &#160;<br> Nina considers her options.<br> 1. Completely change her name and appearance. (Too drastic, plus she <i>likes</i> her hair.) <br> 2. Flee to a deserted island. (Hard pass, see: coffee). <br> 3. Hide in a corner of her apartment and rock back and forth. (Already doing it.)<br> &#160;<br> It's time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn't convinced real life could ever live up to fiction. It's going to take a brand-new family, a persistent suitor, and the combined effects of ice cream and trivia to make her turn her own fresh page.

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