The Resolutions
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A heart-expanding novel about four Latinx teens who make New Year’s resolutions for one another—and the whirlwind of a year that follows. Fans of Erika L. Sánchez and Emery Lord will fall for this story of friendship, identity, and the struggle of finding yourself when all you want is to start over.
From hiking trips to four-person birthday parties to never-ending group texts, Jess, Lee, Ryan, and Nora have always been inseparable. But now with senior year on the horizon, they’ve been growing apart. And so, as always, Jess makes a plan.
Reinstating their usual tradition of making resolutions together on New Year’s Eve, Jess adds a new twist: instead of making their own resolutions, the four friends assign them to one another—dares like kiss someone you know is wrong for you, find your calling outside your mom’s Puerto Rican restaurant, finally learn Spanish, and say yes to everything.
But as the year unfolds, Jess, Lee, Ryan, and Nora each test the bonds that hold them together. And amid first loves, heartbreaks, and life-changing decisions, beginning again is never as simple as it seems.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Four best friends in Denver Nora, Lee, Jess, and Ryan write New Year's resolutions for each other, designed to make them "do the things always talk about but never do": open up to new experiences and take risks on their passions and talents. Achieving success, though, strains the bonds of their friendship, even as their resolutions push them in all the ways they were meant to, especially in relationships beyond those with each other. In third-person prose with chapters that alternate between following the high school juniors, Garc a (Even if the Sky Falls) confidently unspools the unique circumstances of her protagonist's lives. Particularly well developed is Ryan, whose heartbreak over the loss of his first love, Jason, is palpable. But Nora becomes this story's most engaging anchor as the story follows her unending labors at her family's Puerto Rican restaurant and her rich internal life her yearnings to open a pastry shop and desire for an out-of-the-closet relationship with her girlfriend, Beth. This slow-moving story explores heartbreak, family commitments, dreams, friendship, and other familiar adolescent challenges with authentic sensitivity. Ages 13 up.
