Harper Isabelle has everything working for her in grade nine—popular, visible, the kind of girl who knows exactly who she is and where she fits. Then Sarah Jamieson arrives and suddenly the social hierarchy that made sense stops mattering as much.
Sarah is the opposite configuration: black makeup, deliberately friendless, operating under the assumption that invisibility is the safest strategy. Popular girls don’t usually try to see through that wall. Harper does.
Sarah doesn’t know what to do with being seen. She doesn’t know what to do with Harper, specifically—with the attention, the interest, the way Harper keeps showing up in her orbit like she’s decided Sarah is worth the effort. And then Sarah has to name something she’s never named before, something she’s never been sure was real enough to name: that what she feels for Harper isn’t friendship. That it’s something else entirely. Something that requires her to become a person she’s never been allowed to be.
Her obstacles are concrete: religious upbringing that’s taught her to see what she’s feeling as wrong. Self-doubt that runs deep. The terror of being the first person in her own history to say this thing out loud, to claim it as true about herself.
Kumar doesn’t rush any of it. The emotional logic builds carefully. Both girls reach their breaking points separately, internally, before they’re forced to choose—to risk the friendship by naming what it’s become, or to live with the pressure of keeping silent. The novel waits until the pressure is unbearable before asking them to move.
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| ISBN: 9783955335816 |
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| Genre: Romance; YA Fiction (Young Adult) |
| Subject(s): Coming Of Age; Genre Fiction; LGBTQ+ Books; LGBTQ+ Romance; Literature & Fiction; Romance |
| Publication Date: 2016-03-02 |
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| Publisher: Ylva Verlag e.Kfr. |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 298 |
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| Book_ID: 106010 |