Every Time You Hear That Song
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Beschreibung des Verlags
Told in alternating perspectives, Every Time You Hear That Song is a swoonworthy summer road-trip romance, perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins-Reid and Casey McQuiston.
Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase is looking for a news story to launch her career and get her out of her stifling small town.
When her country music idol Decklee Cassel dies leaving behind a trail of cross-country musical clues to her final album, Darren sees her opportunity for fame and freedom. All she needs is a car, though the only driver she knows is her annoying co-worker, Kendall . . .
As Darren and Kendall get closer to the prize – and each other – everything Darren thought she knew about the woman she idolized begins to unravel.
What actually happened to Decklee’s songwriting partner? And who were all those soul-stirring love songs written for?
Praise for Every Time You Hear That Song:
“I absolutely loved this romantic, page-turning adventure about loving people and places who cannot love you back on your terms. If you’ve ever tried to make yourself smaller for a world that was never meant to contain you, this book will be a balm to your soul.”—Dahlia Adler, author of Home Field Advantage
“Every Time You Hear That Song is the literary equivalent of hitting the open road with the windows down and the radio blasting. After devouring this book, I’m officially in my Jenna Voris era.”—Brian D. Kennedy, author of A Little Bit Country and My Fair Brady
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A bisexual teen reporter uncovers the unsung love story of a closeted woman from her small town's past in this layered exploration of ambition, partnership, and journalistic ethics told via evocatively rendered dual POVs. Neither pursuing journalism nor coming out seem possible for Darren Purchase—at least, not if she stays in Mayberry, Ark. When she learns that her favorite musician—late "country-pop icon" Decklee Cassel—left behind a treasure hunt leading to an unreleased album secretly cowritten with her estranged songwriting partner, Mickenlee Hooper, and a $3 million prize, Darren jumps at the chance to snag financial independence. Embarking on a road trip with a classmate she knows "in the same shallow, superficial way I know everyone in Mayberry," Darren hunts for the album—and the scoop behind Decklee and Mickenlee's relationship. But revelations about her idol and her traveling companion force Darren to reconsider her goals and what leaving Mayberry might really cost. Through alternating past and present first-person narratives following morally ambiguous "wildfire girl" Decklee and ingenuous Darren respectively, Voris (Made of Stars) teases out tension between a longing for privacy and a desire to live and love out loud in this messy, complicated search for community. Protagonists read as white. Ages 12–up.
