We Came Here to Forget: A Novel

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NAMED ONE OF 2019S MOST ANTICIPATED READS BY Bustle PopSugar PureWow Marie Claire BookBub She Reads Parade Women.com From the author of She Regrets Nothing which BuzzFeed called a sharp glittering story of wealth family and fate comes a vivid novel about a young Olympic skier who loses everything and escapes to Buenos Aires where she reinvents herself meets a colorful group of ex-pats and becomes enmeshed with a man keeping dark secrets of his own. Katie Cleary has always known exactly what she wants: to be the best skier in the world. As a teenager she leaves her home to live and train full time with her two best friends all-American brothers Luke and Blair whose wealthy father has hired the best coaches money can buy. Together they are the USAs best shot at bringing home Olympic gold. But as the upward trajectory of Katies elite skiing career nears its zenith a terrifying truth about her sister becomes impossible to ignoreone that will lay ruin not only to Katies career but to her family and her relationship with Luke and Blair. With her life shattered and nothing left to lose Katie flees the snowy mountainsides of home for Buenos Aires. There she reinvents herself as Liz Sullivan and meets a colorful group of ex-pats and the alluring charismatic Gianluca Fortunado a tango teacher with secrets of his own. This beautiful city with its dark history and wild promise seems like the perfect refuge but can she really outrun her demons? In alternating chapters Katie grows up falls in love and races down the highest peaks on the planetwhile Liz is reborn falls into lust and sinks into the underground tango scene at the bottom of the world. From the moneyed ski chalets of the American West to the dimly lit milongas of Argentina We Came Here to Forget explores what it means to dream to desire to achieveand whats left behind after it all disappears.