Pip has known and liked Sal since childhood he’d supported her when she was being bullied in middle school. There’s not much plot here, but readers will relish the opportunity to climb inside Autumn’s head.Įveryone believes that Salil Singh killed his girlfriend, Andrea Bell, five years ago-except Pippa Fitz-Amobi. Even secondary characters are well-rounded, with their own histories and motivations. Autumn’s coming-of-age is sensitively chronicled, with a wide range of experiences and events shaping her character. But on August 8, everything changes, and Autumn has to rely on all her strength to move on. In the summer after graduation, Autumn and Finny reconnect and are finally ready to be more than friends. Growing up, Autumn and Finny were like peas in a pod despite their differences: Autumn is “quirky and odd,” while Finny is “sweet and shy and everyone like him.” But in eighth grade, Autumn and Finny stop being friends due to an unexpected kiss. They drift apart and find new friends, but their friendship keeps asserting itself at parties, shared holiday gatherings and random encounters. The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. Wildly ambitious and wholly empathetic, devastatingly raw, and impossibly gentle a must-read in this moment. Lucy is Haitian Conor, Zach, and May are White. Though shaped like a romance, Lawson’s remarkable debut celebrates love’s many forms, from friends who refuse to be pushed away to families slowly closing years of distance. Lawson’s extraordinary knack for navigating typical teenage-rule predicaments-parent problems, friend frustration, budding desire-and the most searing circumstances-loss, terror, rage, fault-keeps the plot at a boil.
As May begins putting herself back together, Zach learns what being there truly entails. When Lucy auditions for Conor’s band, May and Zach meet cute. When his attorney mother defends the shooter, almost everybody he knows-except his best friend, Conor-abandons him. Zach has been taking care of his family, especially younger sister Gwen, since his father fell into a deep depression five years ago. She’s struggled with survivor’s guilt and PTSD ever since, and her best friend, Lucy, is the only person who keeps her going. May is the sole survivor of a massacre that robbed her twin brother, favorite teacher, and five peers of their lives. In alternating first-person narration, two familiar character types-loose-cannon May McGintee and awkward try-hard Zach Teller-are quickly defamiliarized. Two teens find each other (and themselves) with a little help from their friends in this story of survival, perseverance, and hope.
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