Long Story Short
A Novel
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Serena Kaylor's Long Story Short is a debut YA rom-com about a homeschooled math genius who finds herself out of her element at a theater camp, where she learns about friendship, love, and how to be herself…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brimming with wit, optimism, and adolescence's seemingly never-ending awkwardness, Kaylor's humorous debut follows one reserved, previously homeschooled teenager's attempts to make friends and come into her own at a theater summer camp. White 16-year-old Californian Beatrice Quinn, who graduated high school at 14, has just gotten into the University of Oxford, her dream college. Her parents, however, don't think she's ready to live abroad alone. Desperate to leave the nest, Bea strikes a deal with her parents: if she will step out of her comfort zone and socialize at a theater camp, they'll let her attend Oxford. Once she arrives at the Connecticut Shakespearean Summer Academy, she meets extroverted Mia, her Black and bisexual roommate, as well as white Nolan, Mia's gay "best camp friend" and costumer extraordinaire. Though she feels in over her head, Bea—with Mia and Nolan's guidance—slowly comes out of her shell and develops a crush on Indian-cued Nikhil Shah, the handsome son of world-famous stage actors. Bea's evolution from isolated academic to social butterfly, and her myriad cringe-worthy and applause-inducing trials and tribulations, are thoughtfully rendered, and a large, idiosyncratic cast populate her transformative whirlwind summer. Ages 14–up.
Customer Reviews
Omg so funny..
Growing up homeschooled in Berkeley, California, Beatrice Quinn is a statistical genius who has dreamed her whole life of discovering new mathematical challenges at a school like Oxford University. She always thought the hardest part would be getting in, not convincing her parents to let her go. But while math has always made sense to Beatrice, making friends is a problem she hasn’t been able to solve, so her parents are worried about sending her halfway across the world. Can she survive summer acting camp amongst her peers?
The popular, gorgeous son of the owners is there and they are butting heads. this is a cute coming into themselves. I laughed at the antics of the quirky campers friends. loved reading this..