The Sky Is Everywhere
Published on 22. March 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-14-241780-5 (ISBN)
Description
From the Printz Award-winning author of I’ll Give You the Sun comes a story of a young girl’s struggle to sort her own melody out of the noise around her.
“Both a profound meditation on loss and grieving and an exhilarating and very sexy romance.”—NPR
“How grief and love run side by side is sensitively and intensely explored in this energetic, poetic, and warm-blooded novel.”—The Guardian
One boy helps her remember. The other helps her forget.
Adrift after her sister Bailey’s sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive Toby—Bailey’s boyfriend who shares her grief—and Joe, the new boy in town who bursts with life and musical genius. Each offers Lennie something she desperately needs . . . though she knows if the two of them collide her whole world will explode.
Join Lennie on this heartbreaking and hilarious journey of profound sorrow and mad love, as she makes colossal mistakes and colossal discoveries, as she traipses through band rooms and forest bedrooms and ultimately right into your heart.
Jandy Nelson's beloved, critically adored debut is now an Apple TV+ and A24 original film starring Jason Segel, Cherry Jones, Grace Kaufman, and Jacques Colimon.
“Both a profound meditation on loss and grieving and an exhilarating and very sexy romance.”—NPR
“How grief and love run side by side is sensitively and intensely explored in this energetic, poetic, and warm-blooded novel.”—The Guardian
One boy helps her remember. The other helps her forget.
Adrift after her sister Bailey’s sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive Toby—Bailey’s boyfriend who shares her grief—and Joe, the new boy in town who bursts with life and musical genius. Each offers Lennie something she desperately needs . . . though she knows if the two of them collide her whole world will explode.
Join Lennie on this heartbreaking and hilarious journey of profound sorrow and mad love, as she makes colossal mistakes and colossal discoveries, as she traipses through band rooms and forest bedrooms and ultimately right into your heart.
Jandy Nelson's beloved, critically adored debut is now an Apple TV+ and A24 original film starring Jason Segel, Cherry Jones, Grace Kaufman, and Jacques Colimon.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
Target group
Young adult
US School Grade: Ninth Grade and over, Interest Age: From 14 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
326 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-241780-5 (9780142417805)
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Jandy Nelson is the New York Times bestselling author of I’ll Give You the Sun, which received the prestigious Printz Award and was a Stonewall Honor Book. Her critically acclaimed debut, The Sky Is Everywhere, is now an AppleTV+ and A24 original film for which Jandy wrote the screenplay. Together, Sun and Sky have sold over a million copies worldwide. Both have been YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks and on multiple best of the year lists, have earned many starred reviews, and continue to enjoy international success. Currently a full-time writer, Jandy lives and writes in San Francisco, California, not far from the settings of her novels.