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Also by Amber Smith:

The Way I Used to Be Collection (Boxed Set), December 2023
Hardcover
Something Like Gravity, December 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Way I Am Now, November 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
The Way I Used to Be, April 2016
Hardcover / e-Book

The Way I Used to Be
Amber Smith

Margaret K. McElderry
April 2016
On Sale: March 22, 2016
Featuring: Eden
ISBN: 1481449354
EAN: 9781481449359
Kindle: B00Z7C19EC
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult

New York Times bestseller! In the tradition of Speak, Amber Smith's extraordinary debut novel “is a heart-twisting, but ultimately hopeful, exploration of how pain can lead to strength” (The Boston Globe).

Eden was always good at being good. Starting high school didn’t change who she was. But the night her brother’s best friend rapes her, Eden’s world capsizes.

What was once simple, is now complex. What Eden once loved—who she once loved—she now hates. What she thought she knew to be true, is now lies. Nothing makes sense anymore, and she knows she’s supposed to tell someone what happened but she can’t. So she buries it instead. And she buries the way she used to be.

Told in four parts—freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year—this provocative debut reveals the deep cuts of trauma. But it also demonstrates one young woman’s strength as she navigates the disappointment and unbearable pains of adolescence, of first love and first heartbreak, of friendships broken and rebuilt, all while learning to embrace the power of survival she never knew she had hidden within her heart.

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