- Bisexuality, Hispanic Americans, Huntington's disease, Fiction
When her father is diagnosed with Huntington's disease, eighteen-year-old Vanni abandons her plan to flee her small New Mexico hometown after high school graduation and instead spends the summer keeping herself busy with part-time jobs and boys, but that changes after she meets Leigh, whose friendship dares Vanni to ask herself big questions and make new plans.
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Rebecca Podos
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062373373
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