Two across
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jeffrey Bartsch
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781455554621; 9781455554614; 9781455590155; 9781478904465; 9781455554607
Subjects: Coming of age; Expectation (Psychology); Secrets; Weddings; Teenagers; Fiction; Coming of Age; Humorous; Literary; FICTION; General; Mother and child
Description: "TWO ACROSS is a funny and poignant debut novel about trust, forgiveness, and the wisdom of listening to your heart. Stanley and Vera, academically precocious but awkward teenagers, form a bond when they tie for first place in the National Spelling Bee. Though their mothers have big plans for them-Stanley will become a senator, Vera a mathematics professor-neither wants to follow these pre-determined paths. So Stanley hatches a plan to marry Vera in a sham wedding for the financial freedom to pursue his one true love: crossword puzzle construction. In enlisting Vera to marry him, he neglects one variable: she's secretly in love with him, a fact that dooms his plan to disaster. Once he's lost her, Stanley tries to atone for his mistakes and win her back using coded messages in crossword puzzles-but can he find her again before it's too late?"--