Get your tissues ready because of this unrequited like story that’s equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking and can appeal to fans of Jennifer Niven, John Green, and Jesse Andrews.

Seriously, how can you see a person nearly every day you will ever have and never believe a thing from it, then suddenly, 1 day, it’s different? You observe that goofy grin one thousand times and chuckle. But goofy grin #1,001 nearly stops your center?

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Matt Wainwright is continually sabotaged from the overdramatic film director in his head. He can’t inform his closest friend, Tabby, how he really feels about her, he implodes over the JV golf ball team, as well as the just place he feels regular is within Mr. Ellis’s British class. If this had been a film, everything would work out perfectly. Tabby would discover that Matt’s madly deeply in love with her, be overcome with emotion, and would fall into his hands. Maybe in the rain.

But that’s not how it operates. Matt watches Tabby get swept apart by senior basketball celebrity and all-around great man Liam Branson. Dropping Tabby to Branson is normally bad enough, but screwing up and dropping her as a friend is even worse.

After a tragic accident, Matt discovers himself left within the sidelines, around the verge of spiraling out of control and dropping everything that counts to him. From debut author Jared Reck comes a fiercely funny and heart-wrenching book about like, longing, and what goes on when life as you know it adjustments in an instant.

“This tale broke my center and produced me giggle and gave me hope-and actually, what more can you ask of the publication than that?” -Jennifer E. Smith, author of Windfall as well as the Statistical Possibility of Love initially Sight

“In the blink of an eyes, A BRIEF HISTORY of the lady Next Door will go from amusing to haunting to harrowing to heartbreaking to hopeful and back again.” -Jeff Zentner, award-winning author of The Serpent King and Goodbye Days

‘Pair this with . . . Jeff Zetner’s Goodbye Days or Adam Silvera’s Background is WHATEVER YOU Left Me.’-Booklist

‘Recommend this to readers who enjoyed Steven Levenson’s Dear Evan Hansen.’–VOYA