ADULT AND YA FILM/TV HOT LIST Spring 2019
Table of Contents
Contemporary Drama CHICKEN GIRL HEATHER SMITH ...... 3 FRYING PLANTAIN ZALIKA REID-BENTA ...... 4 ONLY CAFÉ LINDEN MACINTYRE ...... 5 TECHNICOLOR VORTEX OF AWESOME AMBER KEYSER ...... 6
Fantasy and Magical Realism CASTLE OF LIES KIERSI BURKHART ...... 7
Historical Drama BETWEEN BEFORE & AFTER MAUREEN MCQUERRY ...... 8 BROKEN GROUND KAREN HALVORSEN SCHRECK ...... 9
Literary Fiction CROSSHAIRS CATHERINE HERNANDEZ ...... 10 DAUGHTERS OF SILENCE REBECCA FISSEHA ...... 11 LIKE RUM-DRUNK ANGELS TYLER ENFIELD ...... 12
Romantic Comedy and Romance QUANTUM WEIRDNESS OF THE ALMOST KISS AMY PARKS ...... 13
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CONTEMPORARY DRAMA
Chicken Girl Heather Smith
Life can be a tough egg to crack.
Publisher: Penguin Teen/Penguin Random House Canada, Spring 2019 Materials: Books Available Represented by Amy Tompkins, [email protected]
HEATHER SMITH’s previous YA novel, The Agony of Bun O'Keefe, is a White Ravens selection, received starred reviews from Kirkus and Quill & Quire, was named a best book of 2017 by Kirkus, Bank Street College of Education, The Globe and Mail, and Quill & Quire (honorable mention), and won the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Award. Her middle grade verse novel, Ebb & Flow (Kids Can Press, 2018) received starred reviews from School Library Journal and Quill & Quire, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. Smith is originally from Newfoundland, and now lives in Waterloo, Ontario, with her husband and three children. Her east coast roots inspire much of her writing.
Poppy used to be an optimist. But after a photo of her dressed as Rosie the Riveter is mocked online, she’s having trouble seeing the good in the world. As a result, Poppy trades her beloved vintage clothes for a feathered chicken costume and accepts a job as an anonymous sign waver outside a restaurant. There, Poppy meets six-year-old girl Miracle, who helps Poppy see beyond her own pain, opening her eyes to the people around her: Cam, her twin brother, who is adjusting to life as an openly gay teen; Buck, a charming photographer with a cute British accent and a not-so-cute mean-streak; and Lewis a teen caring for an ailing parent, while struggling to reach the final stages of his gender transition. As the summer unfolds, Poppy stops glorifying the past and starts focusing on the present. But just as she comes to terms with the fact that there is good and bad in everyone, she is tested by a deep betrayal.
“There is a lot to enjoy and admire here, including a heroine Praise for The Agony Of Bun O'keefe with a good voice, an immersive setting, an excellent cast of characters and deft pacing." —CM Magazine “Although Bun is 14, she possesses the endearing naiveté and honesty of a child, but her first-person narration isn't sappy or immature. . . . Bun O'Keefe will settle comfortably at home in readers' hearts." —Kirkus, starred review
“This is a book that grabs readers by the heart and the head. You can’t help but care about the characters, wonder at your own circumstances, and reflect on the nature of kindness and love. This is a book that should be read not only by teens, but by adults who might need a reminder of what unironic innocence looks like." —Quill & Quire, starred review
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CONTEMPORARY DRAMA
Frying Plantain Zalika Reid-Benta
A Jamaican-Canadian girl growing up between worlds.
Publisher: Astoria/House of Anansi Press, 2019 Represented by Amy Tompkins, [email protected]
ZALIKA REID-BENTA is a Toronto-based writer whose work has appeared on CBC Books, in TOK: Writing the New Toronto, and in Apogee Journal. In 2011, George Elliott Clarke recommended her as a “Writer to Watch.” She received an M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia University in 2014 and is an alumnus of the 2017 Banff Writing Studio. She completed a double major in English Literature and Cinema and a minor in Caribbean Studies at University of Toronto’s Victoria College. She also studied Creative Writing at U of T’s School of Continuing Studies. She is currently working on a young-adult fantasy novel drawing inspiration from Jamaican folklore and Akan spirituality.
Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle—of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “true” Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother’s rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too “faas” or too “quiet” or too “bold” or too “soft.” Set in “Little Jamaica,” Toronto’s Eglinton West neighbourhood, Kara moves from girlhood to the threshold of adulthood, from elementary school to high school graduation, in these twelve interconnected stories. We
see her on a visit to Jamaica, startled by the sight of a severed pig’s head in her great aunt’s freezer; in junior high, the victim of a devastating prank by her closest friends; and as a teenager in and out of her grandmother’s house, trying to cope with the ongoing battles between her unyielding grandparents.
A rich and unforgettable portrait of growing up between worlds, FRYING PLANTAIN shows how, in one charged moment, friendship and love can turn to enmity and hate, well-meaning protection can become control, and teasing play can turn to something much darker. In her brilliantly incisive debut, Zalika Reid-Benta artfully depicts the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation Canadians and first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity and predominately white society.
“Zalika Reid-Benta announces herself as an enormous voice for “Zalika Reid-Benta’s first book—by turns effortless, vivid, funny, the coming decade (and one that is desperately needed). Not all sad, and genuinely like being there—is as shiny as they come. must-read books are this enjoyable.” —Gary Shteyngart, author Her spot-on capture of youthful aspiration, folly, and how family of Super Sad True Love Story and Lake Success members tend to understand one another only in fragments make these stories a real pleasure—full of recognition, humour, “Each story in Frying Plantain is achingly poignant, insightful, and keenly observed lives in the here and now. Frying Plantain, a and funny; each a gem unto itself. Ms. Reid-Benta’s fully window into the world of growing upward and onward inside sympathetic protagonist, Kara Davis, is a girl who belongs to and outside family ties, is an absolute gem.” neither Canada nor Jamaica, despite the fact that both places are —Janice Galloway, author of Clara and All Made Up ‘home.’ Her family—loving, flawed, and wickedly at odds with one another—all demand her loyalty, and her loyal friends aren’t friends at all. As a collection, these stunning stories create a multi-faceted jewel of a book.” —Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of The Scenic Route and Rabbits for Food
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CONTEMPORARY DRAMA
The Only Café Linden MacIntyre
A new novel of international intrigue from the Scotiabank Giller Prize- winning author of The Bishop's Man. Told through three different, interwoven stories, THE ONLY CAFÉ takes us from the literal battlefield to wars waged in the boardroom and in the media. It is both an exploration of character and of the moral compass that directs us each through our lives.
World Rights Available Ex: North America English, Random House Canada Materials: Books available Represented by Shaun Bradley, [email protected]
LINDEN MACINTYRE is best known as the award-winning host of Canada’s premiere investigative television show, the fifth estate, which he joined as co-host in 1990. For three decades, MacIntyre has been involved in producing documentaries and stories from all over the world including the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and Soviet Union and Central America.
He began his career as a writer in 1999 with "the Cape Breton trilogy" and his first bestselling novel— The Long Stretch. His second novel, The Bishop’s Man, was the winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was longlisted for the International Dublin IMPAC Prize, among others. In 2012 he completed the trilogy
with the novel Why Men Lie. His most recent novel, Punishment, won the Dartmouth Book Prize. He is the co-author of Who Killed Ty Conn, and a childhood memoir, Causeway, for which he won The Evelyn Richardson Prize and The Edna Staebler Award. MacIntyre lives in Toronto with his wife, CBC radio host and author Carol Off. They spend their summers in a Cape Breton village by the sea.
Pierre Cormier was once a refugee and may be a fugitive from a war crime—a massacre in Lebanon. But he has left his violent history behind to immerse himself in a reconstructed life. He has married and has children, and has buried his guilty secrets into the folds of a new identity. He is a successful lawyer and a decisive trouble-shooter for an international mining company. He is respected by his peers. But an unplanned encounter in an unlikely place—a small pub with an intriguing name—catapults the events of his past into the present. Cormier’s years of peace, prosperity, and success are suddenly threatened, as is the future that he had dared to take for granted.
Seen through the lens of memory, and through the search by a son for the truth of a father he did not fully know, THE ONLY CAFÉ is an exploration of the darkest truths we cannot leave behind.
“Linden MacIntyre's The Only Café will transfix readers with its “In the course of his transition from journalist to novelist, disquieting and cautionary narrative." —The Globe and Mail Linden McIntyre has honed a style that draws heavily on his training as a reporter and producer of investigative “MacIntyre excels at the examination of larger issues, issues like documentaries. That style—spare, propulsive, and rich in honour and culpability, personal and social responsibility, the observational detail and dialogue—is well suited for the nature of good and right, which few contemporary writers ever ambitious themes explored in his novels. In The Only Café, dare to approach.” —Vancouver Sun MacIntyre returns to the theme that underpins his best writing: the corrupting influence of institutions and ideologies on the individual conscience." —Toronto Star
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CONTEMPORARY DRAMA Technicolor Vortex of
Awesome Amber Keyser
Deliciously good feel-good YA: Four best friends, one madcap road trip, and the most epic cosplay of all time.
Publisher: Delacorte Press, Penguin Random House, Fall 2020 Materials: Manuscript Available Represented by Fiona Kenshole, [email protected]
AMBER J. KEYSER is the author of fourteen books for teens and tweens. Her YA novel Pointe, Claw (Carolrhoda Lab, 2017) is an explosive story about two girls claiming the territory of their own bodies. It received multiple starred reviews and was featured in Horn Book Love Stories for Pride Month and Booklist’s Top Ten Arts Books for Youth 2017. Spanish rights sold. The Way Back From Broken (Carolrhoda Lab, 2015) is a heart-wrenching YA novel of loss and survival, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and received a starred review from Booklist and was an Alan Pick. Amber created, edited, and contributed to The V-Word: True Stories of First-Time Sex (Simon & Schuster, 2016), a nonfiction, YA anthology. Honors for this book include multiple starred reviews and New York Public Library 50 Best Books for Teens 2016, Chicago Public Library Best Nonfiction for Teens 2016, ALA Rainbow List 2017, ALA Reluctant
Reader List 2017, and The Amelia Bloomer List 2017.
Gigi Golden-Meyer is not ready for her parents’ vision of her future: gainful employment, serious pursuits, reliable careers. Give her an X-Acto knife, a hot glue gun, and some balsa wood, and Gigi can make a perfect miniature replica of the set from Hamilton. From silver lycra, strips of foam, and a sewing machine, she’ll make custom armor for cosplay. But it’s three months to graduation, and the door marked ADULT is looming in her future. The worst thing is being separated from her three best friends. Unlike Gigi, all of them have a plan. Anne’s an activist with a political internship for the summer, Liv will be studying engineering, and Sean’s going to college on a prestigious track scholarship. Gigi has poor grades, iffy college prospects, and a head full of dreams.
When she enters a charity contest and wins a chance to meet a British Bollywood megastar, Gigi has no trouble getting her friends on board for a spring break road trip to LA. Her dad is another story. To convince him, Gigi cooks up a teen- to-teen ride-share business that she swears will be her gap year project and ticket to entrepreneurial success. The foursome hits the highway. Making it to SoCal is an adventure in itself, including a gender fluid tech whiz, a bookstore rebellion, and a chicken named Furiosa, but when they get to LA, things really go off the rails.
This gloriously joyful #ownvoices celebration of friendship, sunshine, cosplay, anime and all the important things in life compares with TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE.
“A raucous, life-affirming, joyous romp about crafting a life of one’s own from friendship, passion, and more than a little glitter.” —Elana K. Arnold, National Book Award Finalist
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FANTASY AND MAGICAL REALISM
Castle of Lies Kiersi Burkhart
Gossip Girl meets Game of Thrones in this sexy fast-paced commercial fantasy of a love triangle set against a background of elven violence and human betrayal.
No one gets far by playing fair.
Publisher: Carolrhoda, May 2019 Materials: Manuscript Available Represented by Fiona Kenshole, [email protected]
KIERSI BURKHART is the author of Honor Code and co-author of the Quartz Creek Ranch series, both published by Carolrhoda.
Thalia has spent her whole life scheming to be queen. But she's overshadowed by her cousin Princess Corene.
Bayled is heir to the throne but he's never felt he truly belongs...
Parsival is used to looking out for himself, as any noble with half a brain would do.
Then the Elven Army attacks the Kingdom and everything changes...
Imprisoned in the castle, Parsival and Thalia discover a secret reservoir of magic—but can they control it before it controls them.
Sapphire, an Elven warrior, is eager to prove themself in the campaign, but the humans they encounter are NOT the savages they expected..
And this Castle is Full of Lies!
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HISTORICAL DRAMA
Between Before & After Maureen McQuerry
BETWEEN BEFORE & AFTER is told in dual narrative by a young girl in 1955 San Jose who discovers there may be more to her family than meets the eye, and her Brooklyn born mother who was forced to make drastic decisions in the aftermath of the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918.
Represented by Sandra Bishop, [email protected]
It's 1955 in San Jose, California, and fourteen-year-old Molly is worried about school, friends, and her parents' failed marriage, but mostly about her mother. A writer with an obsession for researching other people's life stories, Elaine Donnelly is missing her own.
While Molly spends her summer watching out for her little brother and tiptoeing around her mother's raw emotions, she finds a lock of hair in her mother's dresser and is motivated to do some investigating of her own.
Molly's sleuthing is aided by her Uncle Stephen, an honorable priest, who unwittingly performs a miracle that makes the news, and provides a trail of crumbs to the past and a heartbreaking decision Elaine was forced to make as a young woman in 1918 Brooklyn during the aftermath of the Spanish Flu pandemic.
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HISTORICAL DRAMA
Broken Ground Karen Halvorsen Schreck
To escape the Texas Dust Bowl and her stifling grief, a young widow follows her last hope to Pasadena, California and finds new purpose teaching English to Mexican migrant farmworkers facing deportation during Hoover’s Repatriation campaign.
Publisher: Howard Books, Simon & Schuster USA Represented by Sandra Bishop, [email protected]
KAREN HALVORSEN SCHRECK's novels include Broken Ground, May 2016, Simon & Schuster/Howard Books. Her 2014 novel Sing For Me received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Her previous novels include While He Was Away, a Finalist for the 2012 Oklahoma Young Adult Book Award, and Dream Journal, a 2006 Young Adult BookSense Pick.
Her short stories have received various awards, including a Pushcart Prize and an Illinois State Arts Council Grant. Karen received her doctorate in English and Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She lives with her family in Wheaton, Illinois.
Ruth Warren is awaiting news of a teaching scholarship while making the best of newlywed life in a Depression-era East Texas oil town. When her husband killed in an oil rig accident, she follows her last hope to Pasadena, California to pursue her dream of becoming a teacher.
When a professor's sexual advances threaten her fresh start, Ruth seeks shelter with a local family—a move that exposes her to the inhumane treatment of U.S. citizen immigrants of Mexican descent during the state's sponsorship of Hoover's Repatriation program.
Their hope in spite of desperation, and willingness to risk everything for opportunity inspire Ruth; her own struggles made her stronger and more compassionate, and infused her with the courage to stand up for others whose desperation is even greater than hers. This is a timely, inspiring story of a woman finding the courage to fight for what's right when own life seemed to have gone all wrong.
“Well-written, lyrical… Readers will love Ruth's stamina and “A wonderfully engaging and consistently compelling read... heart, and come away with a new understanding of immigrant highly recommended." —Midwest Book Review experiences both then and now.” —Publishers Weekly “The evocative story proceeds fluidly, in the strong and “A masterfully written historical novel …Broken Ground is not delightful voice that is Ruth’s. The stark landscape of Oklahoma, to be missed.” —USA Today the emotional tugs of the heart, and the rewarding outcomes all meld together to form a compelling novel." “The characters remind the reader that while the world is full of —Historical Novel Society broken people, promises, and ground, there is hope. Ruth is an encouraging character who finds herself after losing “Karen Halvorsen Schreck has done it again… Engaging, lyrical, everything." —RT Book Reviews (4 Stars) and inspirational" —Julie Cantrell, New York Times bestselling author of The Feathered Bone
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LITERARY FICTION
Crosshairs Catherine Hernandez
CROSSHAIRS tells a frighteningly believable story about the rise of fascism, and takes place only five years in the future. Can’t happen here? Just you wait.
Publisher: Harper Collins, Fall 2020 Materials: Manuscript Available Represented by Marilyn Biderman, [email protected]
CATHERINE HERNANDEZ is a proud queer woman of colour, radical mother, activist, theatre practitioner, award-winning author, and the Artistic Director of b current performing arts. She is an accomplished playwright and has served as playwright-in-residence at many prominent theatres. Catherine’s
first novel, Scarborough, garnered many honours and awards, and much enthusiastic praise.
Set in a post-Trump era, the government-sanctioned regime, The Boots, executes a carefully orchestrated genocidal campaign called The Renovation. Their target? The Others: racialized communities, the disabled, the elderly and LGBTQ folks. The novel unfolds the way genocidal campaigns do, with targeted communities being labelled, dehumanized, refused access to basic needs, put into labour camps or killed.
Escaping persecution is Kay, a gay man of Jamaican/Filipino descent. After his livelihood as a drag queen and the love of his life, Evan, are taken away from him, he goes into hiding thanks to Liv, a white ally. But after six months in hiding, news arrives that an uprising is on the horizon. On a small farm a few hours outside the city, Kay joins the resistance alongside Bahadur, a transmasculine refugee, and Firuzeh, a queer frontline worker. Guiding them in the use of weapons and close- quarters combat is Beck, a gay white ally and rogue army officer.
In the novel’s fearsome conclusion, the Others, supported by allies, execute the uprising at a large, international event at which the Boots are overpowered. Will the Others remain triumphant as they exclaim their right to live? Readers are left with that chilling uncertainty, as they may be forced to contemplate their own complicities, small and large.
Praise for Catherine Hernandez's first novel, Scarborough: “Rooted from within the worldview and place it portrays, Scarborough is an intimate portrait of a community with all its Finalist for the City of Toronto Book Award, 2017 nuances and desires deftly captured. Through this novel, Hernandez Finalist for the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, 2018 invites us to engage in both the subtle and the sharp, the ordinary Finalist for the Half the World Global Literary Award, 2017 and the extraordinary; which, at its best, is what Toronto is all Finalist for the Trillium Award, 2018 ab out. Brick by brick, life by life, Scarborough delivers an orchestral Finalist, Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading Evergreen impact, one small, beautiful voice at a time.” Award, 2018 —Toronto Book Awards, Jury Citation Long-listed for Canada Reads, 2018 Named as a Globe 100, National Post, and Quill and Quire Best Book of the Year “ Scarborough showcases a necessary shift from the singular voice Named as a Top Ten Audible Book, 2017 novel to create space for many voices t o be heard – especially ones that are often forgotten. In her dexterous debut, Catherine Hernandez powerfully centres the margins by interlacing narratives that spotlight the beauty that thrives beyond the big city." —Vivek Shraya, author of I’m Afraid of Men
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LITERARY FICTION
Daughters of Silence Rebecca Fisseha
For fans of Greenleaf and Difret, DAUGHTERS OF SILENCE is psychologically astute, and filled with the richness and the vibrant colours of Ethiopian life.
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions, Fall 2019 Materials: Manuscript Available Represented by Marilyn Biderman, [email protected]
REBECCA FISSEHA’s short fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including Room Magazine, Joyland Magazine, The Rusty Toque, and is upcoming in the Addis Ababa edition of Akashic Books’ Noir series. Her play, wise.woman was produced by b current in Toronto in 2009.
Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theatre and a Master’s Degree in Communications and Culture from York University; a Diploma in Writing for Film and Television from the Vancouver Film School; and a Certificate in Creative Writing from the Humber School for Writers. Rebecca Fisseha was raised in Ethiopia, Austria, and Switzerland; and has been based in Toronto since 1998. www.rebeccafisseha.com
First-person narrator Dessie is a flight attendant, who, shortly after her mother’s death in Canada, finds herself stranded in her birth place, Ethiopia, due to the ash and smoke from the volcano in Iceland that closed the skies to air travel in 2010. Duty commands her to pay her respects to her grandfather, Shaleka, as soon as she arrives, but Dessie’s conflicted past stands in her way. The family holds multiple secrets, and just as the volcano’s eruption disordered Dessie’s work life, so does her mother’s death cause cataclysmic disruptions in the fine balance of self-deceptions, lies, and false histories that characterize the relationships among Dessie’s family members. From the trauma of Italy’s invasion to the shame of unwed motherhood, and abuse that meets with silence, Dessie pieces together the mystery of her mother’s life, and through that process, comes to terms with her own.
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LITERARY FICTION Like Rum-Drunk
Angels Tyler Enfield
A unique and electrifying blend of classic tales. Think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers meets The Arabian Nights.
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions, Spring 2020 Materials: Edited Manuscript Represented by Shaun Bradley, [email protected]
TYLER ENFIELD is an Edmonton-based writer and photographer. He is the author of four novels, including Madder Carmine (Great Plains Publications, 2015), which was winner of the 2016 High Plains Book Award, a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Prize, and a nominee for the Alberta Readers Choice Award. His film, Invisible World (National Film Board of Canada, 2017) was co-written with Madeleine Thien, and was the winner of three Alberta Screen Awards. Other awards include ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year, New Brunswick Literary Prize for Fiction, and the Moonbeam award. You can learn more about him at TylerEnfield.com.
LIKE RUM-DRUNK ANGELS is Tyler Enfield’s dazzling sophomore novel, wide in scope and broad in its imagination. This brilliant and inventive tale revolves around Francis Blackstone, a lovestruck youth in search of the fortune that will allow him to marry the girl of his dreams. With few prospects for immediate wealth in sight, Francis joins forces with the notorious gunslinger, Bob Temple. Together they form The Blackstone Temple Gang, an infamous group of gentleman train robbers who become a country-wide media sensation.
Set in the Wild West, this is an offbeat and slightly magical literary work. Filled with big skies, daring shoot-outs, and blazing dialogue, it is an entirely original retelling of the Aladdin story as an American western—a rich combination of classic love story, quest journey, and a tribute to boyhood enthusiasm.
“Madder Carmine is a masterpiece... Enfield’s fever dream of a “Original and gripping right up to the final page..." classical quest is dizzying, poetic and original... a major work that —Publishers Weekly deserves to be celebrated.” —High Plains Book Award judges “Like the Sister's Brothers... only better." —CBC's RadioActive “Brilliant... mind-bending... in the same frenetic vein as Patrick DeWitt's genre-bashing novels, Tyler Enfield’s Madder Carmine “Intelligent and poetic... dreamlike and tangible... [Madder is a step of above, and vividly beyond." Carmine] is rich with its own unique spark." —Thomas Trofimuk, author of Waiting for Columbus —Maple Tree Literary Supplement
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ROMANTIC COMEDY AND The Quantum Weirdness of the
Almost Kiss Amy Parks
Caleb has always assumed that when she was ready for romance, Evie would choose him. Because he is her best friend, and he loves her, and he has almost kissed her 17 times…
Publisher: Abrams Materials: Manuscript Available Spring 2019 Represented by Elizabeth Bennett, [email protected]
AMY PARKS’ own fascination with physics and mathematics, which infuses the book, also shapes her work as an associate professor of mathematics education at Michigan State University.
There she tries to help future teachers recover from the trauma inflicted on them by years of school mathematics. She writes stories about smart girls falling for feminist boys in quirky midwestern settings. ROMANCE She’s a fan of kissing books and quantum physics, all manner of baked goods, and using One Direction lyrics as the basis of entire novels. Social media still scares her, but she’s working on it.
Seventeen-year-old Evie Beckham has never been interested in dating. She’s been fully occupied by her love of mathematics and her frequent battles with anxiety (and besides, she’s always found the idea of kissing to be a little bit icky). But with the help of her best friend and her therapist, Evie’s feeling braver. Maybe even brave enough to enter a prestigious physics competition and to say yes to the new boy who’s been flirting with her.
Caleb Covic knows Evie isn’t ready for romance but assumes that when she is, she will choose him. So Caleb is horrified when he is forced to witness Evie’s meet cute with a floppy-haired, mathematically gifted transfer student. Because Caleb knows the girl never falls for the funny best friend when there's a mysterious stranger around, he decides to use an online forum to capture Evie’s interest. Now, he’s got Evie wondering if it’s possible to fall in love with a boy she’s never met.
Told in the alternating voices of Evie and Caleb, THE QUANTUM WEIRDNESS OF THE ALMOST KISS is a YA romantic comedy, sure to satisfy fans of Jenny Han, Rainbow Rowell and Stephanie Perkins.
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