{"product_id":"book-dvuu","title":"Slingshot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eNarrator Jesse Vilinsky masterfully connects listeners to the awkward nervous energy of teens...Vilinsky shines with breathless trepidation as Gracie grows from heartbreak, jealousy, and self-realization. At times, it's hard to listen to the raw emotions Vilinsky voices--which also make this audiobook hard to put down.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAudioFile Magazine,\u003c\/i\u003e Earphones Award winner\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMercedes Helnwein's \u003ci\u003eSlingshot\u003c\/i\u003e is an exciting debut contemporary young adult novel perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell and Mary H. K. Choi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I didn’t think it was going to be anything like this when I finally fell in love. I thought it was going to be pretty simple. Like, I’d love someone and they’d love me. I thought that’s the way it worked.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrace Welles is stuck at a third-tier boarding school in the swamps of Florida, where her method of survival is a strict, self-imposed loneliness. And it works. Her crap attitude keeps people away because without friends, there are fewer to lose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when she accidentally saves the new kid, Wade Scholfield, from being beaten up, everything about her precariously balanced loner world collapses and, in order to find her footing again, she has no choice but to discover a completely new way to exist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause with Wade around, school rules are optional, weird is okay, and conversations about wormholes can lead to make-out sessions that disrupt any logical stream of thought. Nothing’s perfect, but that’s not the point. When they're together everything seems uncomplicated in a way that Grace knows is not possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcept it is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo why does Grace crush Wade’s heart into a million pieces?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcidly funny and compulsive readable, this debut is a story about two people finding each other and then screwing it all up. See also: soulmate, stupidity, sex, friendship, bad poetry, very bad decisions and all the indignities of being in love for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Helnwein debuts in striking fashion... The writing, especially the dialogue, is magnetic, honest, and brimming with caustic wit... [an] enrapturing take on the intense highs and lows of teenage love.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(Starred Review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wildly real and bursting with all the romance and pain of coming into oneself.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e(Starred Review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49365207777584,"sku":"BDdvuu","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/198075-dvuu-Square.jpg?v=1734540626","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dvuu","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}