This Song Will Save Your Life
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Publisher Description
This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales is an irresistible novel about hope, heartbreak and the power of music to bring people together.
All her life, Elise Dembowski has been an outsider. Starting a new school, she dreams of fitting in at last – but when her best attempts at popularity fail, she almost gives up. In a cry for help, she self-harms, and when news of that gets around school, things get even worse for Elise.
But then she stumbles upon a secret warehouse party. There, at night, Elise can be a different person, making real friends, falling in love for the first time, and finding her true passion – DJing.
But when her real and secret lives collide, she has to make a decision once and for all: just who is the real Elise?
'This book spoke to me on so many levels. I wish I’d had it as a teen' – Marissa Meyer, author of Heartless
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Plagued by bullies, high-schooler Elise Dembowski (named for The Cure's “A Letter to Elise”) is extremely self-conscious about her unpopularity. As her behaviour becomes more self-destructive and isolating, Elise stumbles on an underground dance party and parlays her love of eccentric music into an attention-grabbing DJ gig. We definitely identified with Elise's conflicting desires to fit in and be true to herself. This Song Will Save Your Life is an uplifting story about learning to identify the people who truly matter.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Elise has endured a lifetime of social isolation and bullying at school. Walking alone one night soon after a halfhearted suicide attempt, the 16-year-old inadvertently ends up at an underground nightclub. There, an aspiring musician befriends her, and she catches the eye of Char, a cute DJ who agrees to teach her to mix music. But as talented, driven Elise spends more nights sneaking out to learn how to DJ (and kiss Char), her double life spins out of control. Elise is a complex, well-drawn character, and it's easy to relate to her sense of feeling like an outsider ("There are so many rules that you don't know, and no matter how much you study, you can't learn them all"). Sales (Past Perfect) fills her third YA novel with honest insights about high school's cruel politics, tender conversations between Elise and her equally struggling parents, and visceral descriptions of life as a DJ: "It felt like invisible veins and arteries ran between me and every person in that room, communicating information between us instantly and noiselessly." Ages 12 up.
