Description
Zhou Jie Lun has everything in his life : He has a stable career, a loving girlfriend and a good life ahead . However, when he encounters his teenage first love, Lara Wu, in a coincidental meeting, his life changed .
He falls in love with Lara again and their romance blossoms. Just when they think their romance is a testimonial that a love story can be a simple "boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl and they live happily ever after", Lara starts to act strangely. Her mindset begins to dhrink younger every two weeks: At twenty two years old , she cries for burgers and plays with Hello Kitty soft toys.
Jie Lun has to make a choice: Either to abandon her and live happily ever after with another girl, or to stay with her and live in despair ever after. How far will his love for Lara stretch ? Till the end of time, or till the end of his patience ?
Random Info (:
-There's a melody to the song he composed , You Are Here .
-He wrote 90% of this on the school computer as he had yet to buy a new computer then .
-He had to re-write two chapters as the thumbdrive was corrupted when he went home to transfer the writings from school to his computer . They turned out better .
-In order to know what the Ez-Link Reader will show when an Ez-Link card is out of value, he boarded a few buses with a no-value Ez-Link Card, and exit while trying to memorize the words on the Ez-Link Reader. One of the bus drivers even asked him to just board in, when his Ez-Link Card was out of value.
-To write the scene whereby the main character, lara, is hit by a car, he jay-walked many times during peak hours to feel the rush of cars near him.
-He got the idea of a girl shrinking in age when he was writing the following sentence in I Believe You. "If I had one of the abilities of God, I would have chosen to relive my past, and slowly, tenderly, treasuring every single hour, minute, second with you"
Review
Low Kay Hwa's third novel , You Are Here , tells a bittersweet love story between a guy and a mentally retard girl . Their 15 year old love story will touch everyone's heart .It has gone through four prints in just three years !
Preview
Read the first sixteen chapters of the book in the following link now ! :)
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