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Children’s, Teenage & Educational

TELL ME MY NAME

Amy Reed

Set against the backdrop of a world falling apart - wildfires rage, smoke clogging the air; rising sea levels have turned NYC into a place where the rich live from the second floor and above - Amy Reed's TELL ME MY NAME is a tense, psychological, slow-simmering thriller that is a gender-flipped The Great Gatsby meets We Were Liars - with a thoroughly amazing twist woven into the very fabric of the story.

In a few decades, floods have overtaken the East Coast and fires have burned swaths of the west to nothing. But on wealthy Commodore Island, life is serene. Fern is watching and waiting - for summer, for college, for her childhood best friend to decide he loves her. Then Ivy Avila lands on the island like a falling star. When Ivy shines on her, Fern feels seen. When they're together, Fern has purpose. She is granted access to the secrets and history that Ivy hides behind her fame, fortune, and the lavish parties she throws at her big glass house, and it is in these shadows where Fern comes understand that Ivy hurts in ways she can never comprehend. And soon, it's clear Ivy wants someone Fern can help her get. But as the two pull closer, Fern's cozy life on Commodore unravels: drought descends, fires burn, and a reckless night spins out of control. Everything Fern thought she understood - about her home, herself, the boy she loved, about Ivy Avila - twists and bends into something new. And Fern won't emerge the same person she was. An enthralling, mind-altering fever dream, TELL ME MY NAME is about the cost of being a girl in a world that takes so much, and the enormity of what is regained when we take it back. Amy Reed was born and raised in and around Seattle, where she attended a total of eight schools by the time she was eighteen. She eventually graduated from film school, promptly decided she wanted nothing to do with filmmaking, returned to her original and impractical love of writing, and earned her MFA from New College of California. She is the author of the YA novels Beautiful, Clean, Crazy, Over You, Damaged, Invincible, Unforgiveable, The Nowhere Girls, and The Boy And Girl Who Broke The World, and her work is included in the anthology Our Stories, Our Voices.

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Book Published 2021-03-09 by Dial Books for Young Readers

Comments

Haunting, beautiful, thrilling - Tell Me My Name is an exquisitely crafted, nuanced story of metamorphosis and mystery. Amy Reed's smart, captivating prose twists and turns, a kaleidoscope of light and shadow that will keep you flipping page after page.

This novel is amazing. I am just in awe. Evoking both the terrible and tender, Tell Me My Name is a pulsating, hypnotic retelling that captures a young girl's heartbreaking desire to be fully seen, and sets it against a crumbling, near-future world.

Set in a future that feels frighteningly plausible, Tell Me My Name is a lush, gorgeously crafted page-turner that will have you holding your breath until the final line.

Lurking in the heart of this brilliant, feminist reimagining of The Great Gatsby are powerful questions about wealth and glamor, privilege and inequality, and the many roles young women must play as they seek and claim their own survival. Tell Me My Name is the best kind of literary thriller - one with as much conscience as pulse.

A harrowing, prescient vision of the near future. Amy Reed delivers a compelling and propulsive thriller with sentences that gleam like polished steel.

I barely breathed the last 100 pages. Simply stunning. I truly loved this book.

An immersive, smartly written view into the mind of a young woman coping with her identity and trauma; a distinct perspective to add to the mental health fiction selection.

This twisty, near-future, feminist take on The Great Gatsby is a relentlessly compelling exploration of girls, power, and reclamation. Chilling and timely, Reed's latest is a literary thrill ride.

Tell Me My Name is a glimpse into the future that somehow holds tight to our past. Only Amy Reed could write a novel this dark, this gorgeous, this forward-looking while speaking to our present moment. Reed is a writer of incredible power and terrifying foresight.

Reed packs in a lot - the climate crisis, sexual assault, drug addiction, class commentary, and mental illness - but the plot never feels overstuffed... The Great Gatsby [is cited] as inspiration in her closing notes, but this has as much Hitchcockian suspense as Fitzgerald's tarnished glitz.

I haven't felt this way since reading We Were Liars - mind blown. Beautifully written, Tell Me My Name gets under your skin, exploring what it means to claim wholeness in a world that too often tears girls apart. You'll be thinking about it long after the final page.

The toll of exploitative fame is explored against a dystopian backdrop in this psychological thriller... A complicated, harrowing tale of personal trauma in a violently polarized society.