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SLINGSHOT

Mercedes Helnwein

Grace Welles had resigned herself to the particular loneliness of being fifteen and stuck at a third-tier boarding school in the swamps of Florida, until she accidentally saves the new kid in her class from being beat up. With a single aim of a slingshot, the simple mathematics of her life are obliterated forever, because now there is this boy. Wade Scholfield. With Wade, Gracie discovers a new kind of life. School rules are optional, conversations are laced with inside jokes, and smiles lead to kisses that can eliminate any logical stream of thoughts.
So why does Grace smash Wade's heart into a million tiny pieces? And what can she do when she finally realizes that 1. The universe doesn't revolve around her, and 2. Wade has been hiding a dark secret? Is Grace the only person unhinged enough to save him?
Acidly funny and compulsively readable - think Lady Bird meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower - this is a story about two people finding each other and then messing it all up. See also: passion, stupidity, sex, bad poetry, and all the indignities of being in love for the first time.

[NOT SO] AMAZING GRACE
Eine Slingshot-Romance
Deutsch von Rita Gravert
[Pbck Oetinger 07/2022]
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Published 2021-04-01 by Wednesday Books

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Spanish: Planeta México;

Wildly real and bursting with all the romance and pain of coming into oneself. -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Film rights sold to Amazon.

Glittering and irreverent, Helnwein has crafted an iconic character for the ages in sharp-tongued iconoclast, Gracie Welles. Beautiful prose, characters that breathe, and a voice so thick you could swim in it -I am fully here for this book. -- David Arnold, author of Mosquitoland and The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

[...] Gracie's a powerhouse: incredibly acerbic, prone to lashing out, and painfully relatable. She and Wade are magnetic together, but it's Gracie's carefully drawn growth that buoys her story into one that is truly memorable. ...Wildly real and bursting with all the romance and pain of coming into oneself. --- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

France: La belle Colère;