The Great Big One
First Written 2021
Genre Fiction
Origin US
Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
My Copy library copy
First Read July 1, 2025

The Great Big One

Notes

Here's a YA book I wouldn't have taken the chance to read - but I met the author at a party and realized: shoot! Fiction author in my neighborhood? I'm sure as hell reading his books. This was great; at first a kind of 'moody teenager with too many feelings' YA school story, that was definitely just not my lane. But it takes a much weirder and more serious turn, and I was absolutely into it in the back half.

Noted on July 1, 2025

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