
Sleeping Around
A Young Adult Coming of Age
Morgan Vega(Author)
Morgan Vega (Publisher)
Published on 3. August 2021
Book
Hardback
274 pages
978-1-7370595-1-6 (ISBN)
Description
Publisher's Weekly 2022 BookLife Prize Finalist and YA/MG Winner!
A teen violinist hopes to leave her foster care baggage behind at college. Instead, she starts sleeping around campus-from air mattresses to random couches-after a roommate nightmare.
"Exploring trauma and resilience in gritty first-person detail, Sleeping Around by Morgan Vega is a powerful reflection on stability, the concept of home, and the heavy baggage we all must sometimes carry." -Self-Publishing Review
"A masterpiece of early college angst, complicated friendships, young love, and overcoming trauma. The author expertly weaves together multiple themes, carefully framing difficult subjects-homosexuality, religious trauma, foster care, insecurity-into an accessible, charming novel . . . A fabulously written slice-of-life story about a girl finding herself." -Publisher's Weekly, The BookLife Prize
Foster care always promised her a bed. Now she doesn't even have that.
Coralee (Corey) Reed can't wait to trade her current foster house for Harmony Hall, the dorm for music majors. Corey arrives at Borns College with her pawn-shop violin and a borrowed duffle bag, ready to leave her foster care baggage behind.
But Corey's first day on campus starts on a sour note. She runs into her archrival violinist Dylan Mason, then her name's not on the dorm's roster. Worst of all, Corey can't live at Harmony Hall. Period. Because she's not yet accepted into the music program. Instead, Reslife shoves her into a temporary triple with two unsuspecting (and beyond different) roommates.
When one of her roommates does the unforgivable, Corey starts sleeping around campus-from air mattresses to random couches-while waiting for an open room. But how can she beat Dylan for first chair if she can't keep her eyes open? How can she pass her finals without a good night's sleep? Will college, the place she thought would launch her dreams of becoming a professional violinist, be the place her dreams end all too soon?
More details
Language
English
Target group
Young adult
Interest Age: From 14 to 18 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
492 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7370595-1-6 (9781737059516)
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Person
Morgan Vega earned her BA in English from Bridgewater College and MA in Technical Writing from James Madison University. She worked in higher education for seven years before transitioning into the publishing industry. Morgan interned at Kore Press, worked as an editor at Scarsdale Publishing, and now does marketing for No Starch Press.
Morgan grew up and lives in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. When she's not writing, Morgan's freelance editing and talking about books on social media. Sleeping Around is her debut novel.