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The Truth of Right Now
The Truth of Right Now | Kara Lee Corthron
7 posts | 5 read | 4 to read
Two isolated teens struggle against their complicated lives to find a true connection in this heartwrenching debut novel about first love and the wreckage of growing up. Lily is returning to her privileged Manhattan high school after a harrowing end to her sophomore year and its not pretty. She hates chemistry and her spiteful lab partner, her friends are either not speaking to her or suffocating her with concerned glances, and nothing seems to give her joy anymore. Worst of all, she cant escape her own thoughts about what drove her away from everyone in the first place. Enter Dari (short for Dariomauritius), the artistic and mysterious transfer student, adept at cutting class. Not that hed rather be at home with his domineering Trinidadian father. Dari is everything that Lily needs: bright, creative, honest, and unpredictable. And in a school where no one really stands out, Dari finds Lilys sensitivity and openness magnetic. Their attraction ignites immediately, and for the first time in what feels like forever, Lily and Dari find happiness in each other. In twenty-first-century New York City, the fact that Lily is white and Dari is black shouldnt matter that much, but nothings as simple as it seems. When tragedy becomes reality, can friendship survive even if romance cannot?
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GatheringBooks
The Truth of Right Now | Kara Lee Corthron
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#LovePrevails Day 7: Perhaps there is #PlatonicLove here - or romantic ones, but definitely a lot of truth-telling going on. More of my book haul from the Big Bad Wolf online sale here in the UAE.

Eggs Nicely done ✅ 4y
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SassyPants617
The Truth of Right Now | Kara Lee Corthron
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Wow. I loved this book.
It was complex and wasn‘t a typical girl meets boy YA novel. I felt so many different feelings reading this.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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SassyPants617
The Truth of Right Now | Kara Lee Corthron
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Just finished my shift. Today was short and sweet, so I‘m kicking back with a beer and a book 🤓🍺 Really enjoying this one. Very hard to put down.

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SassyPants617
The Truth of Right Now | Kara Lee Corthron
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My double is FINALLY over. Now I can relax with my margarita and this book. 🤓🍹

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Kelly
The Truth of Right Now | Kara Lee Corthron
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Book two of the day. I am enjoying the hell out of my readcation so far.

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Fancypants
The Truth of Right Now | Kara Lee Corthron
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Mehso-so

I'm super split on this book. It felt like a good story but then the ending felt a little like a cop out. Or maybe just rushed? I'd love to hear other thoughts!

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emmanoble
The Truth of Right Now | Kara Lee Corthron
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