Bibliograph

The truth of right now, Kara Lee Corthron

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The truth of right now, Kara Lee Corthron

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The truth of right now

Oclc number

951505644

Responsibility statement

Kara Lee Corthron

Summary

Lily is returning to her privileged Manhattan high school after a harrowing end to her sophomore year. She hates chemistry, her friends are either not speaking to her or suffocating her with concerned glances, and nothing seems to give her joy anymore. Worst of all, she can’t escape her own thoughts about what drove her away from everyone in the first place. Enter Dari, the artistic and mysterious transfer student, adept at cutting class. Not that he’d rather be at home with his domineering Trinidadian father. Dari is everything that Lily needs: bright, creative, honest, and unpredictable. And in a school where no one really stands out, Dari finds Lily’s sensitivity and openness magnetic. Their attraction ignites immediately, and for the first time in what feels like forever, Lily and Dari find happiness in each other. In twenty-first-century New York City, the fact that Lily is white and Dari is black shouldn’t matter that much, but nothing’s as simple as it seems. When tragedy becomes reality, can friendship survive even if romance cannot?

Target audience

adolescent

Creator