: A Broadway-obsessed student interning at his mother’s law firm for the summer. He is an idealist who believes the universe has a "showstopping romance" in store for him.

: A cynical native New Yorker attending summer school to recover from a recent breakup. He is skeptical of fate, especially since he’s on his way to return his ex-boyfriend's things when he meets Arthur.

: The two have a chance encounter at a post office but fail to exchange contact information. A significant portion of the first half follows their separate, often humorous attempts to find each other again in a city of millions.

What If It's Us , a collaboration between Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli, is a young adult romantic comedy that follows the "meet-cute" and subsequent relationship of two teenage boys, Arthur and Ben, during a single summer in New York City.

The novel is told in alternating chapters, with Becky Albertalli writing Arthur and Adam Silvera writing Ben.

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