The foundation of Hollywood formula is the meet-cute. ,It's when the female protagonist and the male protagonist meet by accident, a so-called chance encounter. Anya didn't believe in meet-cute. lt never happened in real life, she said. That is until-she met Ale on a flight)from Jakarta to Sydney-, as they were seated next to each other, and one silly incident led to seven hours of conversation between them. Seven hours of laughter and smiles, seven hours that soon changed them from strangers to lovers
Now, five years have passed. Those laughter and smiles have become nothing but bitter pieces of memories as Anya and Ale a massive tragedy their life, a devastating fate that leaves them questioning every decision that they took and wondering whether they have in fact turned from lovers to strangers.
Told through the perspectives of both Ale and Anya, every chapter is arranged like pieces of puzzle that invites the readers to experience every single emotion that they're feeling, to love and to hate, and sometimes both at the same time.
IKA NATASSA is an Indonesian author who is also a banker at the largest bank in Indonesia and the founder of LitBox, the first literary startup of its kind in the country, which combines the concept of mystery box and online promotions for writers.
She loves writing since since was a little kid and finished writing her first novel in English at the age of 19. She is best known for writing a series of popular novels focusing on the lives of young bankers in Indonesia. Her debut novel A Very Yuppy Wedding is published in 2007, and she has released six books since: Divortiare (2008), Underground (2010), Antologi Rasa (2011), Twivortiare (2012), Twivortiare 2 (2014), and Critical Eleven (2015). A Very Yuppy Wedding is the Editor's Choice of Cosmopolitan Indonesia magazine in 2008, and she was also nominated in the Talented Young Writer category in the prestigious Khatulistiwa Literary Award in the same year. She loves to experiment with writing methods, Twivortiare and Twivortiare 2 are the two novels she wrote entirely on Twitter. Antologi Rasa and Twivortiare are currently being adapted into feature films by two of the most prominent production houses in Indonesia.