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Boy Wander: A Coming of Age Memoir by Jobert Abueva, Rattling Good Yarns Press, LLC.

Michael Samuel Prize, Jobert Abueva new YA from Lammy winner Abdi Nazemian and new books from Lammy finalists Stephanie Adams-Santos and Nicole Melleby! And we have just the books to scratch that itch! This list is full of exciting and intriguing writing, including a memoir by the Inaugural J. No school, no teaching– even summer Fridays! But for us who are still 9-5ing it, we remember what the smell of cut grass meant to us as kids: reading in the park, or long visits to the library. The Adult is a startlingly gorgeous and perceptive debut novel examining identity, love, insecurity, desire, and deceit.May means the start of freedom for so many of us. But when it becomes clear that Nora is lying, too, her secrets begin to take an alarming shape in Natalie's life, even as Natalie tries to look away.

Worried about how her floormates will react to news of her relationship with a woman, Natalie explains her absence by inventing a secret boyfriend called Paul she carefully protects the intimate, sacred adulthood she is building for herself. She begins spending more and more of her time off campus at Nora's home, enveloped by the intensity of her feelings and the version of adulthood she imagines Nora leads. Natalie is drawn magnetically into Nora's orbit. Just as she is trying to find her footing, she meets Nora, an older woman who takes an unexpected interest in her. She reads advice listicles and watches videos online and thinks about how to fit in, how to really become someone.

Chatty, confident Clara from down the hall, who wants to be her friend intense, determined Rachel from her poetry class, who is going to be a writer. Everyone she encounters seems to know exactly who they are. An engrossing, page-turning story about an introverted student and the mysterious older woman whose unexpected interest in her sparks an insidious, all-consuming love affair.Įighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived for her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for an unfamiliar city.