Like Water Contributor(s): Podos, Rebecca (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062373374 ISBN-13: 9780062373373 Publisher: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Mysteries & Detective Stories - Young Adult Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes) - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2016053584 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.8" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for the best LGBT YA novel of 2017 An unforgettable story of two girls navigating the unknowable waters of identity, millennial anxiety, and first love, from the acclaimed author of The Mystery of Hollow Places. In Savannah Espinoza's small New Mexico hometown, kids either flee after graduation or they're trapped there forever. Vanni never planned to get stuck--but that was before her father was diagnosed with Huntington's disease, leaving her and her mother to care for him. Now she doesn't have much of a plan at all: living at home, working as a performing mermaid at a second-rate water park, distracting herself with one boy after another. That changes the day she meets Leigh. Disillusioned with small-town life and looking for something greater, Leigh is not a "nice girl." She is unlike anyone Vanni has met, and a friend when Vanni desperately needs one. Soon enough, Leigh is much more than a friend. But caring about another person threatens the walls Vanni has carefully constructed to protect herself and brings up the big questions she's hidden from for so long. |
Contributor Bio(s): Podos, Rebecca: - Rebecca Podos is the author of Like Water, winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult fiction, The Mystery of Hollow Places, named one of the best books of 2016 by Barnes & Noble and MPR, and The Wise and the Wicked. A graduate of the writing, literature, and publishing program at Emerson College and the creative writing program at College of Santa Fe, Rebecca lives in Connecticut with her husband and children. You can visit her online at www.rebeccapodos.com. |