They did everything right. It wasn't enough.
Zoey Callahan and Johnny Morgan graduate from college into an economy that has no use for them. Within hours of each other, their job offers are rescinded, and what begins as a shared setback becomes a test of everything they believed about the future, about money, and about each other.
Zoey moves home to her parents' house in Connecticut with thirty-five thousand dollars in student loan debt and a degree that was supposed to be a key to something. Johnny returns to his family's working-class house in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, where he sleeps on a bottom bunk and carries the weight of being the first in his family to earn a college degree and the first to come home with nothing to show for it. Between them sits sixty-three thousand dollars in debt and a relationship that has never been tested by anything harder than distance.
Then the real tests arrive.
Brad Grant, Zoey's wealthy ex-boyfriend, offers her a ninety-five-thousand-dollar lifeline at his family's construction empire. The offer would cover her mother's cancer treatment, her student loans, and every bill piling up under the sugar bowl. She cannot afford to say yes without losing herself. She cannot afford to say no without losing her family.
Johnny sends hundreds of applications into a job market that does not reject him so much as erase him. When he discovers that someone connected to Brad's powerful family may be actively sabotaging his prospects, pride and desperation collide, and the distance between what he can offer Zoey and what she needs becomes the distance between staying together and breaking apart.
What saves them is not a rescue. It is a decision. Made separately and then together, they stop waiting for the world they were promised and start building something out of the one they were given.
Zoey and Johnny is a contemporary love story set inside today's economic crisis. For readers who loved emotional realism and the generational voice of Exciting Times, this novel captures what it means to be young in America when the system asks for your trust, your tuition, and your future, and gives back empty words.
A novel about student debt, broken promises, and the stubborn, unglamorous work of building a life that is yours.
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