When I borrowed Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez from the Libby app, I didn’t expect to learn anything. I came for an ooey, gooey, cheesy love story and left with a life lesson.

The main character was stuck between going back to her old life, the one she was familiar with, and a path where she’d succumb to everyone else’s expectations of her, and a possible future she didn’t permit herself to dream it up at all. It felt like that version of her life got tossed right into The Box of Impossible Things. You know exactly what I’m talking about. It’s where we throw our health goals, travel plans, the one passion that still occupies a lot of space in our brains and hearts, and even relationship aspirations.