All Roads Lead to Rome - Paperback

by Yamile Saied Méndez (Author)

What happens when you fall hard for your fallback? In this luminous love story, a young woman who's spent years traveling the globe to outrun her own grief faces a momentous decision on her 33rd birthday... A moving story about wanderlust, loss, hope, and the special magic of finding love in unexpected places-at just the right time - for readers of Elena Armas, Emily Henry and Mia Sosa, from the acclaimed author of the Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick Furia. All Stevie Choi ever wanted was a cozy life in suburbia-a loving husband, adorable kids, a dog. That simple dream shattered into a million pieces when she was only seventeen. She's spent the years since trying to outrun the pain and make something of herself, if only to prove to her estranged family that she's happy and successful-even though she's secretly yearning for another chance at love. If only she believed she deserved it . . . So, Stevie drowns herself in her job, and in the low season, "dates" new countries, leaving her Utah home-base to circle the globe, from Paris to Cairo to Cabo San Lucas, curating a gorgeous Instagram feed-while spending every New Year alone. Then one frigid January day in Rome she meets Cristian. He would be her perfect match-if they weren't separated by continents and obligations. Unable to say goodbye, they agree that if they're both single at seventy, they'll marry each other if only to have a fun companion to travel with. . . . But through the years, their friendship grows into something more, and suddenly it's up to Stevie to choose happiness . . . Sparkling with hope, All Roads Lead to Rome soulfully examines all the ways a tender heart can be broken-and how faith in the future-and in oneself-can make it whole again . . .

Author Biography

Yamile (pronounced sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is an Argentinian-American Pura Belpré gold medal-winning author of picture books, middle grade, young adult, and adult fiction. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient, she's a graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts and Voices of Our Nations (VONA). Her young adult novel, Furia, was a Reese Witherspoon X Hello Sunshine YA Pick and she's a founding member of Las Musas, a collective of women and nonbinary Latinx creators. Born and raised in Rosario, Argentina--to a family with roots from all over the world--she now lives in Utah with her Puerto Rican husband, five multicultural kids, two bilingual dogs, and one majestic cat. Visit her online at YamileSMendez.com.