Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Jenny Han’s Always and Forever, Lara Jean is a young adult (YA) fiction/romance novel published in 2017. It is the third volume in a trilogy surrounding the high school experience of an Asian-American girl named Lara Jean. The first two novels have been adapted into Netflix films; the third book is also slated to be developed into a film. This guide references the e-book version of the novel.

Plot Summary

This novel opens on a typical high school party for Lara Jean and her friends. Her lacrosse-playing boyfriend, Peter, scored the winning goal, and they are celebrating. Peter has a scholarship to attend the University of Virginia in the fall, and Lara Jean expects to attend with him. Her grades are good enough to get in, though she is nervous about what the future will bring if she cannot attend with him. The pair are seniors in high school, and the narrative begins in the spring, just before Easter, and carries through the summer to the weeks before their entrance into college.

After Easter, Senior Week begins at their school—a week in which the seniors participate in a variety of activities, including a weekend-long trip to New York.