Description
Stella and Will meet in the hospital where they’re both being treated for cystic fibrosis, and Rachael Lippincott builds the romance around a rule that’s not metaphorical in the slightest: cross-infection risk means they can never be closer than six feet apart, ever. Falling for someone under a restriction like that reframes every gesture available to two teenagers who’d otherwise just be figuring out how to be near each other. It became Lippincott’s best-known book and was adapted into a film the same year the novel found its widest audience.
