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Eine heiße und explosive Liebesgeschichte... An die wahre Liebe oder gar an Seelenverwandtschaft hat die 17-jährige Penny nie geglaubt. Bis sie eines Abends bei einem Konzertbesuch auf Noah trifft. Wie ein Magnet fühlt sie sich von ihm angezogen - und Noah geht es anscheinend nicht anders. Sie spürt die gewaltige Kraft der Gefühle und lässt Noah doch mit dem ihr eigenen Sarkasmus abblitzen. Erst als sie sich ein paar Monate später wiedersehen, ist klar: Penny und Noah können nicht voneinander lassen.

A razor-sharp, hilarious, and poignant memoir about growing up in the closed world of the ultraorthodox Jewish community. The third of six children in a family that harks back to a gloried Hassidic dynasty, Judy Brown grew up with the legacy of centuries of religious teaching and the faith and lore that sustained her people for generations.

When 15-year-old Romeo's mother leaves one day and doesn't return, he finds himself homeless and trying to survive on the streets. Mute and terrified, his silence makes him vulnerable, and one night, he is beaten by a gang of other kids, only to be rescued by a boy who pledges to take care of him. Julian is barely two years older than Romeo. After running away from an increasingly violent home life, he makes some difficult choices and ends up selling himself on the street to survive. Taking care of Romeo changes him, gives him a purpose in life.

In this snappy memoir, Christine Wild pours us a glass and invites us to take a scalpel to her life. Drunk on possibilities, we follow Wild’s thoughts on post-modernism, her mistakes and raucous trysts, from Vancouver to the Balkans, via the French Riviera, in an often hilarious personal quest for meaning. Her exploration of intimacy and modern relationships in the age of Tinder, the gig-economy and major FOMO has us asking: What do real “love” and “success” entail?