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THE PEOPLE WE CHOOSE
A gorgeous contemporary novel about a girl who decides to find her sperm donor the summer she turns eighteen and the shocking, unfathomable truth that shatters her perfect world and forces her to redefine family in all its different forms.
Calliope Silversmith has always had just two friends, Ginger and Noah, in her small rural town, and she's fine with that. She's never wanted anything more than her best friends, her moms, their house in the woods, and their family-run yoga studio. Calliope cherishes her simple life, now more than everit's the summer before senior year, and the beginning of the end of her time together with the people she loves most.
When Max and his family move into the house across the woods from Calliope, the stability of her longtime trio wavers. Max has a habit of materializing on her porch, and despite Calliope's reluctance to disturb the familiar patterns of the life she has always known with Ginger and Noah, she can't deny her attraction to him.
But Max isn't the only life-altering change this summer. For years, Calliope has nurtured a curiosity about who her sperm donor is, where she comes from, and when she turns eighteen, she finally gets her answer.
The truth is more shocking and unfathomable than Calliope could have ever imagined: her donor is Max's father. Max is her half-brother. With her perfect world shattered, Calliope must pick up the pieces and attempt to reassemble her life. To redefine familyas the one we are born into, and the one that we create.
THE PEOPLE WE CHOOSE is a bold and intriguing exploration of what makes a family. How families are messy and complicated and imperfect, how blood can mean nothing or it can mean everything.
Katelyn Detweiler is a young adult author and literary agent. She received her BA in English Literature from Penn State University and previously worked in the marketing department at Macmillan Children's Group before joining Jill Grinberg Literary Management as an agent. Her novels include the duology Immaculate and Transcendent (Viking, 2015 & 2016) and most recently The Undoing of Thistle Tate (Holiday House, 2019).
When Max and his family move into the house across the woods from Calliope, the stability of her longtime trio wavers. Max has a habit of materializing on her porch, and despite Calliope's reluctance to disturb the familiar patterns of the life she has always known with Ginger and Noah, she can't deny her attraction to him.
But Max isn't the only life-altering change this summer. For years, Calliope has nurtured a curiosity about who her sperm donor is, where she comes from, and when she turns eighteen, she finally gets her answer.
The truth is more shocking and unfathomable than Calliope could have ever imagined: her donor is Max's father. Max is her half-brother. With her perfect world shattered, Calliope must pick up the pieces and attempt to reassemble her life. To redefine familyas the one we are born into, and the one that we create.
THE PEOPLE WE CHOOSE is a bold and intriguing exploration of what makes a family. How families are messy and complicated and imperfect, how blood can mean nothing or it can mean everything.
Katelyn Detweiler is a young adult author and literary agent. She received her BA in English Literature from Penn State University and previously worked in the marketing department at Macmillan Children's Group before joining Jill Grinberg Literary Management as an agent. Her novels include the duology Immaculate and Transcendent (Viking, 2015 & 2016) and most recently The Undoing of Thistle Tate (Holiday House, 2019).
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Published 2021-05-01 by Holiday House |