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 USA's best
shot at bringing home Olympic gold.
But as the upward
trajectory of Katie's elite skiing career nears its zenith,
a terrifying truth about her sister becomes impossible to
ignore—one that will lay ruin not only to Katie's 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 planet—while 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
achieve—and what's left behind after it all disappears.
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