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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Annelie Geissler
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Children’s, Teenage & Educational

MIDNIGHTS WITH YOU

Clare Osongco

Fans of Susan Lee and Dustin Thao will be enchanted by this soulful YA romance about how we love, how we heal, and how we find the strength to go on.

"Where were you thinking of going?" "Nowhere." "Great," he says lightly, putting the car in gear. "Then we'll go there." Seventeen-year-old Deedee's life is full of family ghosts and questions she can't ask. She longs to escape her stifling home, but guilt holds her back that, and the fact that her strict, single mom won't let her learn to drive. But one sleepless night leads Deedee down a road she never thought possible: secret driving lessons with the new boy next door, Jay, whose turbulent family life also keeps him up until sunrise. As midnights stretch into days, Jay helps Deedee begin to unravel her past, and as shared secrets blossom into love, Deedee starts to imagine a life where happiness, where freedom is possible. But the deeper she digs into the trauma that has shaped her, the more that trauma threatens to tear Deedee and Jay apart. Together, these two must decide if the pain they've both inherited has the power to choose their fate, or if they have the power to choose for themselves. Claire Osongco is a biracial Filipina American writer living in Los Angeles. She enjoys mangos with bagoong, mechanical keyboard sounds, and writing super early in the morning when it's easier to pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist. Midnights With You is her debut novel.

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Book Published 2024-11-12 by Disney Hyperion

Comments

A powerful debut. Raw and redemptive.

MIDNIGHTS WITH YOU brims with Deedee's yearning to be understood and seen. Oscongo's honest and mesmerizing prose guides us on Deedee's journey as she navigates how complicated, messy, and heartbreaking love's many forms can be. This is a book you'll revisit over and over again, comforted by the familiar and exhilarated by the discovery of the unknownmuch like a late-night drive with a new friend.

Brazil (Globo Livros)

A hauntingly beautiful story that exists within a liminal space and time that hits all the notes of what it means to be young, finding yourself, first love, and how the burden of generational trauma weighs on one's shoulders.

An achingly beautiful coming-of-age story with powerful prose that cuts straight to the heart. Between the complex family dynamics, the tender romance, and all the raw, real emotions that come with finding your way in life as a teenager, MIDNIGHTS WITH YOU is everything I've ever wanted in a book.

Reading this felt like going on a late-night road trip with your best friend.

Powerful, gorgeous, and intimate, MIDNIGHTS WITH YOU puts the headlights on the haunting specter of intergenerational trauma and what it means to truly break free. A tender punch to the heart.

A tender and aching story about family and first love, about finding stolen moments in which we can heal, forgive, and find ourselves.

Equal parts heartbreaking, haunting, and hopeful, Osongco explores complicated mother-daughter relationships, generational trauma, and first love in MIDNIGHTS WITH YOU. With prose that is both rhythmic and intimate, Osongco's words will leave readers in awe and thinking about the story long after the turn of the last page.