**Two best friends grow up --and grow apart--in this 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 t
We Used To Be Friends
β Scribed by Spalding, Amy
- Book ID
- 110533570
- Publisher
- Amulet
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ASIN
- B07NY13BJ3
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β¦ Synopsis
Two best friends grow upβand grow apartβin this innovative contemporary YA novel
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Told in dual timelinesβhalf of the chapters moving forward in time and half moving backwardβWe Used to Be Friendsexplores 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 boyβs name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, theyβre 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 theyβre getting a divorce. Funny, honest, and full of heart,We Used to Be Friendstells of the pains of growing up and growing apart.
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