Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love
Andrea N. Richesin, Daria Snadowsky, Jon Skovron, Sheila Kohler, Steve Almond, Tara Bray Smith, Laurie Faria Stolarz, Suzanne Finnamore, Melissa Walker, Katie Herzog, Brendan Halpin, Amy Greene, David Levithan, Emily Franklin, Joshua Mohr, Catherine Newman, Heather Swain, Melissa Febos, Christopher Coake, Rebecca Woolf, Lauren Oliver, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Rebecca Walker, Kerry Cohen, Robert Wilder, Ann Hood, Katherine Center

Twenty-six bestselling authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and college dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found and lessons learned along the way. Whether heartbreaking or hilarious, their soul-baring honesty reminds us to keep reaching for true love wherever we can find it and for as long as it takes. Their intimate reflections will fascinate and move any reader who remembers her first love.