Release Date: July 11, 2017Published by: Delacorte Press
Read from: July 4-8, 2017Stad-aloneSource: TxLA 2017For fans of: Contemporary, Romance, Diversity, Grief, Realistic Fiction,
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things comes a charming and poignant story about two struggling teenagers who find an unexpected connection just when they need it most. For fans of Sophie Kinsella, Jennifer Niven, and Rainbow Rowell.
Sometimes a new perspective is all that is needed to make sense of the world.
KIT: I don’t know why I decide not to sit with Annie and Violet at lunch. It feels like no one here gets what I’m going through. How could they? I don’t even understand.
DAVID: In the 622 days I’ve attended Mapleview High, Kit Lowell is the first person to sit at my lunch table. I mean, I’ve never once sat with someone until now. “So your dad is dead,” I say to Kit, because this is a fact I’ve recently learned about her.
When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, everyone is surprised, most of all Kit and David. Kit appreciates David’s blunt honesty—in fact, she finds it bizarrely refreshing. David welcomes Kit’s attention and her inquisitive nature. When she asks for his help figuring out the how and why of her dad’s tragic car accident, David is all in. But neither of them can predict what they’ll find. Can their friendship survive the truth?
"It's nice to sit with someone and not have to think about what to say next."pg. 31
"Seriously,' I say and let the no shit pass without comment, even though she knows it's an expreession I do not like. It makes me think of constipation, which maes me think about grunting, my least favorite noise, after squawking and chewing."pg. 43
"They seem to understand that the world is a big, diverse place, and that different is not the same things as scary. It' amazing to me how many people mistake the two."pg. 48
"You can't get rid of me that easily,' I say. 'I'm like a bad rash."pg. 94
"What if we all jumped out of out of our boxes and chewed up our stupid labels? Who would we discover?"pg. 160
Labels: ARC, Contemporary, Diversity, Grief, Mental Illness or Disabilities, Multiple POVs, POC MC, Realistic Fiction, Stand-alones, YA