Maybe We're Electric
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
From Val Emmich, the bestselling author of Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel, comes a deeply affecting story of two teens who find themselves thrown together overnight during a snowstorm and discover a surprising connection—perfect for fans of Nina LaCour, David Arnold, and Robin Benway.
Tegan Everly is quiet. Known around school simply as the girl with the hand, she's usually only her most outspoken self with her friend Neel, and right now they're not exactly talking. When Tegan is ambushed by her mom with a truth she can't face, she flees home in a snowstorm, finding refuge at a forgotten local attraction—the tiny Thomas Edison museum.
She's not alone for long. In walks Mac Durant. Striking, magnetic, a gifted athlete, Mac Durant is the classmate adored by all. Tegan can't stand him. Even his name sounds fake. Except the Mac Durant she thinks she knows isn't the one before her now—this Mac is rattled and asking her for help.
Over one unforgettable night spent consuming antique records and corner-shop provisions, Tegan and Mac cast aside their public personas and family pressures long enough to forge an unexpectedly charged bond and—in the very spot in New Jersey that inspired Edison's boldest creations—totally reinvent themselves. But could Tegan's most shameful secret destroy what they've built?
Emotionally vivid and endlessly charming, Maybe We're Electric is an artfully woven meditation on how pain can connect us—we can carry it alone in darkness or share the burden and watch the world light up again.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
New Jersey's Thomas Edison Center might not seem like the best place to wait out a snowstorm, but two teens bond there after hours in Emmich's (Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel) quirky book about the power of honesty and forgiveness—and the temptations of internet anonymity. When the storm starts, neither Tegan Everly nor Mac Durant want to go home. Presumed-white museum employee Tegan, who was born with two fingers on her left hand, has had a huge fight with her mother; white golden boy Mac Durant is worried about and angry with his father, who habitually drinks. They're sophomores at the same school, but self-conscious Tegan assumes that they'll have nothing in common. The two grow closer as Tegan shows off the Edison exhibits and the two begin revealing themselves; as she learns about Mac's seemingly perfect life, Tegan realizes how false that is and how uncomfortable she feels about some of the things she's done. Emmich uses second-person interludes and Tegan's emails to her father to show how much Tegan has on her mind; it makes for an effective slow reveal that puts readers in the complex—and human—position of liking someone whose behavior is problematic. Ages 14–up. Agents: Jeff Kleinman and John Cusick, Folio Literary.
