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Absorbed
Absorbed | Jaime Townzen
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Lifeguard Stacey Chapman is dreaming of love, and drowning in bad decisions.
It's 1996, the summer before senior year, and Stacey attempts MTV cool-girl confidence while flirting with Jessie, a sexy skateboarder she's ogled all year. When Jessie pressures her into sex, Stacey's unprepared and afraid to say no. Too ashamed to confide in her mom or her best friend, Gabe, she conspires with another lifeguard to destroy Jessie's reputation, and in the process they obliterate Stacey's good-girl image. Finding refuge in her art teacher's watercolor workshop, Stacey finally begins to untangle who she has become from the art and music career she really wants. But before summer is over, a botched pool rescue snaps Jessie's spinal cord, and Stacey has to answer for her part in the tragedy.
For fans of Jenny Han’s Summer I Turned Pretty series, Jessica Anya Blau’s Mary Jane, Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall and Allison Larkin’s The People We Keep.
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Absorbed | Jaime Townzen

This book was a real surprise & high school as I remember it, the world of simmering passions, high feelings, confusion, uncertainty, & all the insecurities. This book will transport back and leave you reflecting on what you survived. Luckily for most of us, these sad and tragic events the Stacey must experience are ones that will only play out in fiction, however the power and nuance of Jaime Townzen's writing comes making U part of the story

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