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Turner
March 2019
On Sale: March 12, 2019
240 pages
ISBN: 1684422523
EAN: 9781684422524
Kindle: B07KGJ3WG4
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Young Adult | Young Adult Historical
The Carnival at Bray meets West Side Story in Sarah Carlsonโs powerful YA debut; set in post-conflict Belfast (Northern Ireland), alternating between two teenagers, both trying to understand their past and preserve their future. Seventeen-year-olds, Fiona and Danny must choose between their dreams and the people they aspire to be. Fiona and Danny were born in the same hospital. Fionaโs mom fled with her to the United States when she was two, but, fourteen years after the Troubles ended, a forty-foot-tall peace wall still separates her dadโs Catholic neighborhood from Dannyโs Protestant neighborhood. After chance brings Fiona and Danny together, their love of the band Fading Stars, big dreams, and desire to run away from their families unites them. Danny and Fiona must help one another overcome the burden of their parentsโ pasts. But one ugly truth might shatter what they haveโฆ.
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