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angst
Author_Morgan Beem
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coming of age
drama
dysfunctional family
emotional
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family drama
female protagonist
friendship
hate to love
heartbreak
high school
high school love story
new york
relationships
romantic tension
social issues
teen romance
theater kid
ya graphic novel
ya romance
Product details
- ISBN 9781250822307
- Weight: 524g
- Dimensions: 157 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 21 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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It’s the first day of sixth form and seventeen-year-old Essie Rosen is already over it. Her best friend went off to college and barely responds to her texts, her brother’s on the other side of the country in rehab, every conversation with her mum becomes a fight, and her long-term boyfriend, Bruno, feels weirdly distant. Essie’s counting down the days until she can escape her Long Island hometown and join her bff at NYU, where she’s SURE she’ll get into the acting program she’s dreamed about for years.
But when Essie gets dumped AND botches her college audition, her entire trajectory changes. Instead of doing community theatre, she ends up slumming it in the school play, where she’s cast opposite the unexpectedly charming Christopher Sun…the younger brother of the drug dealer who got Essie’s brother hooked. Is he the perfect rebound - or the worst decision Essie could make?
Sara Phoebe Miller is a writer and editor with a decade's worth of experience in the comic book industry. She has edited original comics for Vertigo, ran DC's Talent Development Writers and Artists Workshops, and currently edits DC's Books for Young Readers line of young adult and middle grade graphic novels. She received her BA from Barnard College and MFA in Writing for Young People and Screenwriting from Antioch University LA. Born and raised in New York, she currently lives in LA with her partner and three cats.
Morgan Beem is a freelance artist who works predominantly with ink and watercolor. Her work includes Crashing, Swamp Thing: Twin Branches, Wonder Woman Black and Gold, The Family Trade, Wolfsbane, and a number of anthologies.
