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Loan Le

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Loan Le is the author of A Phở Love Story, a YA rom-com that earned praise from NPR, POPSUGAR, Bustle, Bon Appetit, USA TODAY, and Buzzfeed. Solving for the Unknown, her next YA contemporary novel and a companion to A Phở Love Story, is slated for Spring 2025. Her speculative short story appeared in Firsts & Lasts, a YA anthology that Penguin Workshop released in Fall 2023. She holds an MFA degree in fiction from Fairfield University, where she also earned her bachelor’s degree. She is an editor at Atria Books, a Simon & Schuster adult imprint, where she acquires dark fiction. When Loan isn’t writing young adult novels, she’s writing ghostly, dark adult fiction, trying to make sourdough bread, and listening to BTS. Visit her website at writ ...more

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Average rating: 3.66 · 21,765 ratings · 4,026 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Pho Love Story 3.66 avg rating — 21,684 ratings — published 2021 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Firsts and Lasts by Laura Silverman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adi Alsaid (Goodreads Author) (Contributer), Keah Brown (Goodreads Author) (Contributer) 3.48 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Solving for the Unknown 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — expected publication 2025 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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What's Some of Your Favorite 2020 Books

I'm preparing for a long Christmas break and would love to get some reccs. I tend to read darker upmarket/literary fiction, but I don't mind the occasional heartwarming romance :)

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

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“But in anything you love, isn’t there always some bit of sadness, some essence of suffering? That, to me, is what makes art worth it. Suffer through it—mine the emotions you keep inside yourself, face whatever’s emotionally burdensome, take control of it—then emerge reborn in the end.”
― Loan Le, A Pho Love Story

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“Think about what you want. What you want to make and add to the world.”
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“There’s so much in your life that you can’t control.… So maybe you can use this chance to do something for yourself.”
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“What I felt was a kind of thrilling sadness, something I have since experienced when looking out over other open spaces and lonely boundaries: an emotion that lives on the desolate edge of the known.”
― Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley

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