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Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023.

Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Bisexual teenagers -- Fiction.

9780374388430 (hc.)

340 p. ; 22 cm.

Three girls. Two crushes. One summer. -- cover.

Claire Kemp, a closeted bisexual who might be in love with her best friend, gets a summer job at a local nursing home where an eighty-eight-year-old lesbian helps Claire grow more confident in her identity.

It's the summer before senior year. Claire Kemp, a closeted bisexual, is finally starting to admit she might be falling in love with her best friend, Sophia. At her job in the local nursing home, she meets Lena, an eighty-year-old lesbian woman, who tells her stories about what it was like growing up gay in the 1950s and 60s. As Claire becomes more confident in her identity, she is caught between two loves: Sophia, and Pen, a new girl. -- adapted from jacket

Ages 14-18. Farrar Straus Giroux.

Grades 10-12. Farrar Straus Giroux.

Novels in verse.

2SLGBTQIA+ fiction.

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