My Week with Him
Seven days. Two best friends. One chance to fall in love ...
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
From Joya Goffney, author of hit YA romcom Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry, comes a stirring coming-of-age, best friends-to-lovers romance...
Nikki's always had a difficult relationship with her mum. So when she finds herself homeless at the start of spring break, she decides to rage-quit Texas and give California a shot, to pursue her dream music career.
Until her best friend and long-time crush, Malachai, discovers her plan and convinces her to spend spring break with him, so he can show her all the reasons she should stay in Texas.
But when Nikki's little sister goes missing their plans are interrupted, and Nikki is forced to face her feelings about both her mum and Mal. Can Nikki find the love she's always been missing? And will it be enough to convince her to stay?
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Black high school senior Shaniqua "Nikki" Lenae dreams of escaping her small Texas town and her emotionally volatile mother to become an R&B singer in this acute portrait of agency, hope, and intergenerational trauma by Goffney (Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl). Just before she's supposed to road trip to Los Angeles and audition for a producer, everything falls apart: a betrayal by Nikki's younger sister Vae results in her mother kicking Nikki out. Devastated, Nikki intends to leave for L.A. immediately, but once her best friend Mal learns of her plans, he persuades her to stay with him until it's time to attend the audition. When Vae, feeling guilty about her role in the family fallout, disappears, Nikki and Mal must work with the girls' mother to find her—and after serendipitous events lead to Nikki's dream becoming fully realized, she must decide whether she's willing to leave her family and the boy she's always loved behind. Via artfully interspersed flashbacks and vignettes, Goffney depicts a tumultuous relationship with an absent parent buoyed by a sweetly developing love story that models healthy and gentle romance. Ages 13–up.
