While there were a lot of tears for me with this one, in the end, they were happy ones. You’re rooting for Emmie from the get-go. While it feels like there are a lot of books about young British women foundering in their early 30s, Louis has crafted a main character it’s impossible not to empathize with. Maybe it’s because Emmie isn’t as alone as she thinks she is or that the realization is, sometimes you can’t see what or who is right in front of your face. It’s hard to put into words why I loved this story as much as I did! Maybe it’s the mix CDs and flashbacks to Emmie and Lucas’ early friendship. Lia Louis uses the run-up to the wedding to give Emmie a runway for figuring out who she is, inside and outside her friendship with Lucas and his brother, Elliot. As she turns 30 her life is nothing like what she’d hoped for. Between her absentee mother, the lingering (largely unaddressed) trauma of sexual assault by a teacher in high school, and her lack of career, she’s adrift. Instead, he announces he’s getting married and asks her to be Best Woman. She assumes it’s to reveal his feelings and maybe even propose. She’s wrecked in the opening pages when Lucas asks her to France.
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