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THE TRUTH OF RIGHT NOW

Kara Lee Corthron

A Novel

Lily Kellerman is returning to her privileged Manhattan high school after a dramatic year off and it's not pretty - she sucks at chemistry, her friends are either not speaking to her or suffocating her in concerned glances, and she can't escape her own tormenting thoughts about what estranged her from them in the first place. Enter Dari (short for Dariomauritius), the artistic and mysterious transfer student with a dark past. Dari is everything that Lily needs: bright, creative, and honest. Their attraction ignites immediately, and for the first time in what feels like forever, Lily and Dari are actually happy. But will their complex histories actually tear them apart? When tragedy becomes a reality, can friendship survive even if romance cannot?
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Published 2017-01-01 by Simon Pulse

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[...] “What happens when bad girl meets bad boy? In Corthron's heady realistic novel, troubled teen Lily returns to her high school after a year “away.” New kid Dari sits alone at lunch, drawing and brooding, and catches Lily's eye. As they strike up a friendship, and more, each teen's layered backstory is unscrambled, revealing a mosaic of abuse, untrustworthy adults, and self-harm Recommended -- School Libray Journal

Corthron's vividly authentic Young Adult novel is a love story that feels "timely and timeless" -- Kirkus Reviews, *Starred Review* Read more...

[...]While some of these dramatic twists feel rushed, Corthron marks herself as a writer unafraid of taking up difficult topics relevant to teens' lives. -- Publisher's Weekly Read more...

[...] “[The Truth of Right Now's] focus on racial injustice becomes the most powerful of the novel's subplots. Hand to fans of Kekla Magoon's How It Went Down (2014) or Stephen Emond's Bright Lights, Dark Nights (2015). -- —Booklist