Hello and happy Sunday. You know when you’re on vacation and you read so many books that they sort of blend in together? I think this is what happened to me when I read The Possibility of Now by Kim Culbertson because I honestly had a hard time remembering what it was about.

To be fair to the book, though, it does have an interesting and original premise. I mean, yes, this can fall into the category of your YA novels in which our main character moves from the city or the suburbs to the countryside, the beach, or any other seemingly remote location to spend some time with her estranged dad. Of course, while being there, she discovers herself, makes friends and falls in love. I can think of one Jennifer E. Smith book and one Laura Silverman book that follow this storyline exactly.

However, The Possibility of Now, as I stated when I began the previous paragraph, has an original premise because our main character isn’t just spending her summer at her dad’s. She actually needed to take some time away from school (this was before COVID, so there wasn’t online school) because she had this stress-induced episode and broke down in the middle of a test. So yes, I’ll give it that: it’s deeper than other YA contemporary novels with very similar premises. It was forgettable, nonetheless.