Bookish Buys: Funny Story by Emily Henry
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109 days left. Then, Daphne can leave Waning Bay, Michigan, the place where she’d moved to be with her now ex-fiancé Peter. Days before their wedding, he left her for the woman he promised was just a friend, the gorgeous, annoyingly perfect Petra. The same Petra who broke the heart of Miles Nowak, Daphne’s now roommate. With no fiancé and no place to go, Daphne is rooming with the only person in town she can bear to show her face to—fellow dumpee Miles.
Scruffy and fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants, Miles is the exact opposite of buttoned-up Daphne, and they mostly avoid each other until one night, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship. And when they get an invite to Peter and Petra’s wedding, they hatch a plan to act like they are dating too. But in spending time together to keep their scheme intact, Miles and Daphne start to form a real connection. Just months ago, Daphne believed her story was already written: fall in love with the perfect man, settle down, and start a family. But suddenly she can envision a possible new ending to her story—one that starts with that time she fell in love with her ex-fiancé's new fiancée's ex-boyfriend.
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