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Love and Death with the In Crowd: Beautiful and Mute Kindle Edition

by Jessica Anya Blau (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
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We think of the past as a more innocent time. But in these stories of California teenagers acting out in the last years of the ’70s, it’s easy to see that love, loss, and heartbreak are even more poignant when viewed through 15- or 16-year-old eyes. Surrounded by friends and family who are spinning with their own losses and heartache, these teenage girls navigate the terrors and tenderness of life in the only ways they know how. In this touching and moving pair of coming-of-age stories, best-selling author Jessica Anya Blau makes it clear that once you step over certain lines, there’s no going back.
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Jessica Anya Blau’s newest novel, The Wonder Bread Summer, was picked for CNN’s, NPR’s, Vanity Fair’s, and Oprah Book Club’s summer reading lists. It received multiple offers from Hollywood movie studios and was optioned. Her novel Drinking Closer to Home was featured in Target stores as a “Breakout Book” and made many Best Books of the Year lists. Blau’s first novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, was a national best seller and was picked as a Best Summer Book by the Today Show, the New York Post, and New York magazine. The San Francisco Chronicle and other newspapers chose it as one of the Best Books of the Year, and the film rights have been optioned. Blau cowrote the screenplay for Franny, a film starring Frances Fisher and Steve Howey. For more information visit Jessicaanyablau.com or follow Blau on Twitter @jessicaanyablau.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07DDZL91M
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ SheBooks (May 31, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 31, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 422 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

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THE WONDER BREAD SUMMER, Jessica Anya Blau's third novel, was featured on NPR's All Things Considered as a Thrilling Summer Read. Oprah.com's book club picked THE WONDER BREAD SUMMER as a Thrilling Beach Read. CNN featured THE WONDER BREAD SUMMER as a Best Beach Read.

Jessica Anya Blau's second novel, DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME, was featured in Target stores Breakout Author series. Novelist Irina Reyn calls it, "Unrelentingly, sidesplittingly funny." The Austin Chronicle says that, "The domestic relationships in the book are brilliantly rendered, a contemporary California version of Philip Roth." Author Dylan Landis says the book is, "So raw and funny I wanted to read parts aloud to strangers."

Jessica'a first novel, THE SUMMER OF NAKED SWIM PARTIES, was chosen as a Top Ten Summer Read by the Today Show, The New York Post and New York Magazine. Cosmo called it a "Sexy Summer Read!" The San Francisco Chronicle and the Rocky Mountain News chose THE SUMMER OF NAKED SWIM PARTIES as a Best Book of the Year.

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Liz
5.0 out of 5 stars More great stories from Jessica Anya Blau
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2014
Once again Jessica Anya Blau captures with accuracy, compassion, and humor the wonders and horrors of being a teenage girl and she explores the complicated dynamics of family life. These two stories are a bargain and well worth reading and rereading.
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1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2016
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It was boring.
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Shari Ring Wolf
4.0 out of 5 stars interesting
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2022
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Quick read, a fast visit with 2 different girls who are best friends as teenagers, one at the age of 15, the other at the age of 16. It was like spending a few hours quietly observing their actions and thoughts. It held my interest, but the “book club” questions at the end did not feel relatable to the story at all.

Well written. I might read a full length novel from this author some day.
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