How To Get Over the End of the World Book
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RELEASE DATE - 26 OCTOBER 2023
Reading level - 13 to 17 years.
James Goldman, self-described neurotic goth gay transsexual stoner, is a senior in high school, and fully over it. He mostly ignores his classes at Cow Pie High, instead focusing on fundraising for the near-bankrupt local LGBTQ+ youth support group, Compton House, and attending punk shows with his friend-crush Ian and best friend Opal.
But when James falls in love with Orsino, a homeschooled trans boy with telepathic powers and visions of the future, he wonders if the scope of what he believes possible is too small. Orsino, meanwhile, hopes that in James he has finally found someone who will be able to share the apocalyptic visions he has had to keep to himself, and better understand the powers they hold.
How to Get Over the End of the World confirms Hal Schrieve as a unique and to-be-celebrated voice in LGBTQ+ YA fiction with this multi-voiced story about flawed people trying their hardest to make a better world, about the beauty and craziness of hope, about too-big dreams and reality checks, and about the ways in which human messiness - egos, jealousy, insecurity - and good faith can coexist.
It is also about preserving the ties within a chosen family - and maybe saving the world - through love, art, and acts of resistance.
"How to Get over the End of the World feels wholly original--a punk rock opera that finds a way to blend sci-fi, coming-of-age, and inspiration that maybe we can fix this messed up world. No one writes the contemporary teen voice better than Hal Schrieve."
Colleen AF Venable, author of the National Book Award Longlisted Kiss Number 8
"A story exploding with voice and vulnerability, How to Get over the End of the World is electric and soft and honest and powerful and left me buzzing. I've never read such a raw depiction and reflection of my trans and queer identities, and I'm beyond excited for young readers who'll get to read this book and feel seen by Hal's words. Simply magical. Very gay."
Kacen Callender, author of the National Book Award-winning King and the Dragonflies and the bestselling novel Felix Ever After
| Author | Hal Schrieve |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 9781644213018 |
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