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From the author of Girl, Boy, and Paranoid Park comes a new novel about the obsessive vortex of falling in love in an impossible time and place.The summer I was seventeen I met this girl ... Nick has the best of moms and the worst of moms. On the upside, she's a distinguished professor and bestselling author. On the downside, she's a serious alcoholic, with no clue how to relate to her son or husband. Nick, meanwhile, has finished his junior year and needs a break from his stressful home life. What better place to spend the summer than Seaside, Oregon, a sleepy beach town where he can chill out, meet girls, and work at his Uncle's car wash. Enter local legend, Phoebe Garnet. She's funny, sexy, but dangerously self-destructive. Suddenly Nick is more in love, more obsessed, more heartsick than he's ever been in his life.



About the Author

Blake Nelson

Blake Nelson grew up in Portland, OR. He began his career writing short humor pieces for Details Magazine.

His first novel GIRL, was serialized in SASSY Magazine and was made into a film starring Dominque Swain, Portia De Rossi and Selma Blaire.

His 2006 novel PARANOID PARK was made into an award winning film by Gus Van Sant and was published in twelve foreign countries.

His 2011 acclaimed novel RECOVERY ROAD has been adapted into a TV series of the same name which will premier on January 18, 2016, on ABC FAMILY.

His latest novel BOY, will be published in June of 2017, in conjunction with the reissue of his classic coming of age novel GIRL.



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