| Vendor | |
|---|---|
|
Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
| Original language | |
| English | |
THE FIRST TRUE THING
Cover for me. Told Mom I'm w/ you. Senna too. I stare at the text from Hannah and toss my phone on the bed.
In the two weeks since her drunken bike accident on the so-called Death Wish Path, Marcelle has been forced to look deeply at her own life. She's clean and sober, attending a tough-love version of after-school rehab, and barely hanging out with her user friends. Then one night she gets a mysterious text from her best friend, Hannah.
It's a small, simple lie. But Marcelle has learned in group therapy not to enable her drug using friends. One lie could lead Marcelle back to a dark, dangerous place. But it's Hannah: beautiful, messed-up, in-deeper-thananyone-knows Hannah. So Marcelle gives in.
The next morning, Hannah is missing. Marcelle was the last one to hear from her and now she's lying to everyoneher parents, Hannah's mom, and Hannah's troubled boyfriend, Robert Senna. How long can Marcelle go on before she admits to herself what she has to do? If she comes clean about what she knows, can she save Hannah?
Claire Needell's powerful novel explores the repercussions of substance abuse, and what it means to take control of your life and your future when it seems like the only path forward is the one that will take all of your courage. Sometimes it's the most difficult struggles that lead us to our truest selves.
Claire Needell is the author of The Word for Yes (HarperTeen, 2016), The First True Thing (forthcoming from HarperTeen in 2019), and three short story collections called Nothing Real: Volumes 1-3 (2014). She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Sunday Review, and is a former middle school English teacher. She lives in Westchester county.
It's a small, simple lie. But Marcelle has learned in group therapy not to enable her drug using friends. One lie could lead Marcelle back to a dark, dangerous place. But it's Hannah: beautiful, messed-up, in-deeper-thananyone-knows Hannah. So Marcelle gives in.
The next morning, Hannah is missing. Marcelle was the last one to hear from her and now she's lying to everyoneher parents, Hannah's mom, and Hannah's troubled boyfriend, Robert Senna. How long can Marcelle go on before she admits to herself what she has to do? If she comes clean about what she knows, can she save Hannah?
Claire Needell's powerful novel explores the repercussions of substance abuse, and what it means to take control of your life and your future when it seems like the only path forward is the one that will take all of your courage. Sometimes it's the most difficult struggles that lead us to our truest selves.
Claire Needell is the author of The Word for Yes (HarperTeen, 2016), The First True Thing (forthcoming from HarperTeen in 2019), and three short story collections called Nothing Real: Volumes 1-3 (2014). She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Sunday Review, and is a former middle school English teacher. She lives in Westchester county.
| Available products |
|---|
|
Book
Published 2019-04-01 by HarperTeen |