This is, I think, the first book that by Julie Halpern that I've read. It's Young Adult fiction, it's a slim novel, and it's a quick read. The novel opens on a death in the family and a betrayal between friends (drama), there's cancer (for which I was afraid I'd need tissues at the end of the story, but I did not), and a blossoming romance (awww). This is a witty, irreverent, heartfelt, at times humorous, at others heartbreaking, tale. Alex takes the summer off from her best friend, Becca, after Becca sleeps with Alex's boyfriend at Alex's father's funeral (I said there was drama). This is no big deal in part because Alex wasn't really 'in love' with said boyfriend. Besides Alex and Becca have forgiven each other numerous transgressions over the many years of their friendship, so it's a given that Alex will forgive Becca come the first day of school. Right now she just needs space to process her father's death and to att...
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