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Boy Meets Girl. Boy Charms Girl...For someone else
St. Martin's Griffin
September 2014
On Sale: September 16, 2014
Featuring: Bridget Smalley; Ken Foster; Jesse Alderman
320 pages
ISBN: 1250051436
EAN: 9781250051431
Kindle: B00IQOFUBQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult
In Kat Spears’s hilarious and often poignant debut, high
school senior Jesse Alderman, or "Sway," as he’s known,
could sell hell to a bishop. He also specializes in
getting
things people want---term papers, a date with the prom
queen, fake IDs. He has few close friends and he never
EVER lets emotions get in the way. For Jesse, life is
simply a series of business transactions. But when
Ken Foster, captain of the football team, leading
candidate
for homecoming king, and all-around jerk, hires Jesse to
help him win the heart of the angelic Bridget Smalley,
Jesse
finds himself feeling all sorts of things. While following
Bridget and learning the intimate details of her life, he
falls helplessly in love for the very first time. He also
finds himself in an accidental friendship with Bridget’s
belligerent and self-pitying younger brother who has
cerebral palsy. Suddenly, Jesse is visiting old folks at a
nursing home in order to run into Bridget, and offering
his
time to help the less fortunate, all the while developing
a
bond with this young man who idolizes him. Could the tin
man
really have a heart after all? A Cyrano de Bergerac
story with a modern twist, Sway is told from Jesse’s point
of view with unapologetic truth and biting humor, his
observations about the world around him untempered by
empathy or compassion---until Bridget’s presence in his
life
forces him to confront his quiet devastation over a
life-changing event a year earlier and maybe, just maybe,
feel something again.
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