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In this exquisitely written and emotionally charged young adult debut, Jennifer Gilmore explores how sometimes the wounds you can't see are the most painful.Did you know your entire life can change in an instant?For sixteen-year-old Lizzie Stoller that moment is when she collapses out of the blue. The next thing she knows, she's in a hospital with an illness she's never heard of.But that isn't the only life-changing moment for Lizzie. The other is when Connor and his dog, Verlaine, walk into her hospital room. Lizzie has never connected with anyone the way she does with the handsome teenage volunteer. However, the more time she spends with him and the deeper in love she falls, the more she realizes that Connor has secrets and a deep pain of his own . . . and that while being with him has the power to make Lizzie forget about her illness, being with her might tear Connor apart.
About the Author
Jennifer Gilmore's first novel, Golden Country (Scribner) was published in September '06 and in paperback (Harcourt) in 2007. The novel was a New York Times Notable Book of 2006, an Amazon.com Top Ten Debut Fiction of 2006, and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Something Red, her second novel, was published by Scribner in Spring of 2010, and was a New York Times Notable Book. It was published in Paperback by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Spring 2011. Her third novel, The Mothers, is forthcoming from Scribner in April 2013.Jennifer received her B.A. from Brandeis University in 1992, where she majored in English and Creative Writing, and minored in Women's Studies. After college, she moved out to Seattle, and became the producer and host of the radio program, "Talking Fiction" on KCMU, and the Senior Book Columnist for The Stranger.In 1997, she received an M.F.A. in Fiction on a scholarship from Cornell University. There, she was an editor at the literary magazine, Epoch, and went on to teach creative writing and literature. After moving to Brooklyn in 1998, she freelanced, and worked for The Leonard Lopate Show at WNYC (it was called New York & Company back then) and as the book club host for A&E.com. From 2001-2007, she worked in publishing, as the publicity director at Harcourt.Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in magazines and journals including the Alaska Review, Allure, BookForum, the Lincoln Center Theater Review, Los Angeles Times, Nerve, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review,Vogue, SELF, Salon, the Stranger, Tin House, Vogue and the Washington Post. Her personal essays have also been included in several anthologies including More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times, The Friend Who Got Away, Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave and How to Spell Chanukah.Jennifer has been a MacDowell Fellow, and has taught creative writing and literature at Cornell University, New York University, Eugene Lang College at the New School and at the 92nd Street Y. Currently she teaches at Barnard College and Princeton University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.Want more info? Follow Jennifer on Twitter at @jenwgilmore. Or please visit her author page on Facebook.
