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Conditions of a heart / Bethany Mangle.

by Mangle, Bethany.

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Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2024.

Self-acceptance -- Fiction.

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome -- Fiction.

High schools -- Fiction.

Schools -- Fiction.

9781665937634 (hc.)

9781665937641 (pbk.)

After an incident leads to her suspension, eighteen-year-old Brynn's high school persona that hides her secret disability is shattered, and she begins embracing her true self on her journey to self-acceptance.

Brynn Kwan is desperate for her high school persona to be real. That Brynn is head of the yearbook committee, the favorite for prom queen, and definitely not crumbling from a secret disability that's rapidly wearing her down. If no one knows the truth about her condition, Brynn doesn't have to worry about the pitying looks of accusations of being a faker that already destroyed her childhood friendships. She's even willing to let go of her four-year relationship with her first love, Oliver, rather than reveal that a necessary surgery is the reason she ignored his existence for an entire summer. But after Brynn tries to break up a fight at a pep rally and winds up barred from all her clubs and senior prom, she has nothing left to prop up her illusion of being just like everyone else. During the week-long suspension from school, she realizes she doesn't quite recognize the face in the mirror -- and it's not because of her black eye from the right. With a healthy sister who simply doesn't understand and a confused ex-boyfriend who won't just take a hint and go away like a normal human being, Brynn begins to wonder if it's possible to reinvent herworld by being the person she thought no one wanted: herself.

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