17 & GONE

With complexity and richness, Nova Ren Suma serves up a beautiful, visual, fresh interpretation of what it means to be lost.

Seventeen-year-old Lauren is having visions of girls who have gone missing. And all these girls have just one thing in common—they are 17 and gone without a trace. As Lauren struggles to shake these waking nightmares, impossible questions demand urgent answers: Why are the girls speaking to Lauren? How can she help them? And... is she next? As Lauren searches for clues, everything begins to unravel, and when a brush with death lands her in the hospital, a shocking truth emerges, changing everything. Nova Ren Suma is the author of the YA novel Imaginary Girls (Penguin/Dutton, 2011) and the tween novel Dani Noir (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin, 2009), recently reissued as Fade Out in a newly updated trade paperback edition for a YA audience (Simon Pulse, 2012). Nova’s new YA novel, 17 & Gone, is forthcoming from Penguin/Dutton in March 2013. Nova has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and a BA in writing & photography from Antioch College. She’s been awarded fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and, twice, from the MacDowell Colony. She will be a resident at the Millay Colony in fall 2012 and was selected to attend the Launch Pad Workshop this summer, a NASA-funded astronomy workshop for writers. She grew up in small towns across the Hudson Valley and now lives in New York City.