It's tough for eleven-year-old Ned—or Jelly Belly, as he’s known at school—to stop eating. At four feet eight inches tall, he weighs 109 pounds, and he keeps growing—wider! When his parents send him to a sleepaway diet camp, he and his bunkmates can't quite give up their old
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β Scribed by Nicola Dinan
- Publisher
- Hanover Square Press
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
"Smart, hilarious and deeply moving." βELLIOT PAGE
"The most hotly anticipated novel of the summer." ?HARPER'S BAZAAR
"Triumphant and humane." βELLE
It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom's awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming's orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he's already mapped out their future together. But shortly after they move to London to start their next chapter, Ming announces her intention to transition.
From London to Kuala Lumpur, New York to Cologne, we follow Tom and Ming as they face tectonic shifts in their relationship and friend circle in the wake of Ming's transition. Through a spiral of unforeseen crisesβsome...
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