Getting Over Max Cooper
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Publisher Description
Letting go is a beach.
Jazz Jacobson has spent fourteen of her sixteen summers on Fire Island. It's just an hour from Manhattan but feels like a world away, where Jazz thrives in the absence of the social hierarchies and pressures of high school. Most of all, it's the place where she's reunited with her best friend, Macy Whelan.
This summer starts out strong when the cute new boy on the island seems to like Jazz (hello, first boyfriend?). But it's hard to focus on her own crush when Macy's still obsessing over her hookup from last summer, Max Cooper.
Jazz can't believe how cold and mean Max is to Macy. But when Macy starts to seriously act out, Jazz begins to see that she knows only one side of the story . . . and that she has to help her friend before something terrible happens.
Boundaries are crossed and the edge of sanity is tested in Marcelle Karp's debut novel, which celebrates the complicated dynamics of female friendship and the heartbreaking ache of first love.
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Inhibitions are cast aside and lifelong friendships are tested in Karp's theatrical debut. Jasmine "Jazz" Jacobson has spent her summers visiting Fire Island's Fair Harbor since she was two years old. For Jazz, summers on Fire Island mean freedom and, now 16, she can't wait for the upcoming season, during which she plans to scoop ice cream at the snack bar, work on a photography project to expand her Instagram following, bike along the beach with best friend Macy Whelan, attend wild parties, and embark on her first-ever romance with handsome photographer, Leo "McDimple" Burke. In reality, though, Macy's preoccupation and increasingly all-consuming pursuit of Max Cooper, her "non-boyfriend boyfriend" and last year's hookup, turns Jazz's initially carefree vacation spent getting closer to Leo into a boundary-crossing summer in which she helps prevent Macy from doing something she'll regret. Supporting characters' plotlines occasionally overshadow the protagonist's arc, and situations regarding drug dependency and unreciprocated romantic advances are left unexplored, but Macy's all-or-nothing attitude and Jazz's determination to pull her back from the edge of obsession add intensity to this otherwise breezy debut. Karp's intricately detailed locales and companionable cast effectively capture one unforgettable, whirlwind summer. Most characters cue as white. Ages 12–up.
