Carrie Mesrobian Pens New YA Novel
By: Christina Mancuso Oct. 09, 2014
2014 William C. Morris Debut Award finalist Carrie Mesrobian follows her praised YA novel Sex & Violence with Perfectly Good White Boy, published by Carolrhoda Lab, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group. Mesrobian gives unguarded, authentic voice to protagonist Sean Norwhalt, a high school senior without much hope of achieving the "American dream."
Sean can read between the lines. Hallie has just dumped him. While he was a perfectly good summer boyfriend, Hallie is off to college and Sean still has another year to go. Hallie's pep talk about futures and "possibilities" isn't exactly comforting. Sean is pretty sure he has seen his future and its "possibilities," and they all look disposable. Like the cruddy rental his family moved into when his dad left. Like the unwanted old clothes he sorts at his thrift-store job. Like everything good he's ever known. The only hopeful possibilities in Sean's life are the Marine Corps-where no one expected he'd go-and Neecie Albertson, whom he never expected to care about.
Carrie Mesrobian's sophomore novel is a powerful and wrenching portrait of a teenage boy on the precipice of the new American future.
Praise for Perfectly Good White Boy:
"Engaging, perceptive, witty and at times gut-wrenchingly sad." -starred, Kirkus Reviews
"Mesrobian deftly conveys just how much drama there is in the everyday." -starred, Publishers Weekly
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About the Author
Carrie Mesrobian is an instructor at the Loft Literary Center. Her debut novel, Sex & Violence, was called one of the best books of 2013 by Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly and was a finalist for the American Library Association's William C. Morris Award for best debut young adult novel.
About the Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab is dedicated to distinctive, provocative, boundary-pushing fiction for teens.
Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, creates high-quality fiction and nonfiction titles for children and young adults.
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PUBLICATION DATE:
October 2014
$17.95 Hardcover, Jacketed
eBook also available
Ages 13-18
HC: 978-1-4677-3480-6
304 Pages ? 5 1/4 x 7 1/2
To Purchase: Visit your local bookstore, order by phone at 800-328-4929, or visit us at lernerbooks.com.
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