Description
Product ID: | 9781419766589 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | We Used to Be Friends |
Authors: | Author: Amy Spalding |
Page Count: | 384 |
Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories, Romance & relationships stories (Children's / Teenage) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Now in paperback, two best friends grow up—and grow apart in this innovative YA novel with half of the chapters moving forward in time and half moving backwards This funny, honest, and realistic novel explores the most traumatic breakup many people ever go through—that of the friendship between childhood besties. In dual timelines, James (a girl with a boy’s name) prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the past year and the dissolution of her relationship with Kat, while in alternating chapters, Kat is newly in love with her first girlfriend and feeling like her future is wide open. Over the course of senior year, Kat wants nothing more than James to continue to be her steady rock through multiple dramas, as James worries that everything she believes about love and her future is a lie when her high-school-sweethearts parents announce they’re getting a divorce. In their last year as friends, Kat and James grow apart while growing up. Filled with bittersweet emotions and plenty of romance, We Used to Be Friends will make you laugh and cry. Two best friends grow up—and grow apart—in Amy Spalding’s innovative contemporary YA novel. Told in dual timelines—half of the chapters moving forward in time and half moving backward—We Used to Be Friends explores the most traumatic breakup of all: that of childhood besties. At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy’s name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they’re no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love with her first girlfriend and having a future that feels wide open. Over the course of senior year, Kat wants nothing more than James to continue to be her steady rock, as James worries that everything she believes about love and her future is a lie when her high-school sweetheart parents announce they’re getting a divorce. Funny, honest, and full of heart, We Used to Be Friends tells of the pains of growing up and growing apart. “Amy Spalding knows that best friendships are love stories, and this one is complex, earnest, and unflinching. A must-read for anyone who’s ever had or lost a friend.” —Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda |
Imprint Name: | Amulet Paperbacks |
Publisher Name: | Abrams |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-04-27 |