Amelia Waxler Regrets Everything: A Novel (Dial Delights)

To kiss the girl or not? One fateful decision leads to two very different parallel futures … but only one true love. When the cops showed up to a high school party twenty years ago, Amelia Waxler hid in a pantry with her friend, Grace. Mere inches apart, their eyes locked, time slowed, and in the space of a heartbeat, her world split in two. In one timeline, Amelia kisses Grace. It’s beautiful, perfect, and helps her realize she’s gay. But after their disastrous breakup a few months later, Amelia spends the next twenty years making it her personality to leave before she can be left—girlfriends, jobs, cities. But when her dad gets sick, now thirty-five-year-old Amelia moves back home to Santa Monica and tries to do what she’s never done before: make a commitment. In the other timeline, gay-panicked Amelia flees the pantry instead of kissing Grace, and they both get arrested for underage drinking. This Amelia spends her young adult life obsessed with not getting in trouble and being responsible—she has no idea what she actually wants or likes.