Gena/Finn
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- £8.99
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- £8.99
Publisher Description
Gena and Finn would have never met but for their mutual love for the popular show Up Below. Regardless of their differences—Gena is a recent high school graduate whose social life largely takes place online, while Finn is in her early twenties, job hunting and contemplating marriage with her longtime boyfriend—the two girls realize that the bond between them transcends fanfiction. When disaster strikes and Gena's world turns upside down, only Finn can save her, and that, too, comes with a price. Told through emails, text messages, journal entries, and blog posts, Gena/Finn is a story of friendship and love in the digital age.
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Once a child TV star, Gena is a college-bound fan-fiction writer who is obsessed with one of the leads from her favorite show, Up Below. With loving yet absent parents, wealthy 18-year-old Gena gravitates toward her online Up Below community of reviewers and writers. When she meets 22-year-old super fan and blogger Finn, short for Stephanie, the two develop a bond that stretches into romance, despite the age difference between them, not to mention Finn's live-in boyfriend, Charlie. As Gena and Finn grow closer, Finn's fledgling career and relationships start to unwind, creating a listlessness and fear mirrored in Gena's slow descent into depression and the return of childhood hallucinations. While the authors' use of a jumble of formats texts, chat messages, emails, comment threads, browser histories, and more vividly portrays the minute-to-minute nature of modern communication and serves to question whether virtual lives can be more fulfilling than reality, the framework lessens the impact of significant emotional moments. Still, when Gena faces a life-changing tragedy, Finn and Charlie's compassion highlights the elasticity of love, family, and identity. Ages 12 up.
