
Dear Evan Hansen
THE NOVEL
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers · Print & ebook · September 6, 2022
From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking, bestselling novel inspired by the hit Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen and soon to be a major motion picture!
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- Who it’s for
- A stage-to-page read with momentum, ache, and a familiar fan-adjacent pull.
- Genres
- Mental Illness for Teens, Death & Grief for Teens, Teen Suicide
- Published
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, September 6, 2022
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From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking, bestselling novel inspired by the hit Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen and soon to be a major motion picture! Dear Evan Hansen, Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why... When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's griefover the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong.
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He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend. Suddenly, Evan isn't invisible anymore—even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy's parents, with their beautiful home on the other side of town, have taken him in like he was their own, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his closest friend.As Evan gets pulled deeper into their swirl of anger, regret, and confusion, he knows that what he's doing can't be right, but if he's helping people, how wrong can it be? No longer tangled in his once-incapacitating anxiety, this new Evan has a purpose. And a website. He's confident. He's a viral phenomenon. Every day is amazing. Until everything is in danger of unraveling and he comes face to face with his greatest obstacle: himself. A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this big-hearted coming-of-age story of grief, authenticity, and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation.
Why It Clicks
A stage-to-page read with momentum, ache, and a familiar fan-adjacent pull.
Come here for
- musical-theater edge
- teen emotional stakes
Expect
- immersive, sustained narration
- category-crossing appeal
Where it sits
| Mental Illness for Teens | 57% |
|---|---|
| Death & Grief for Teens | 38% |
| Teen Suicide | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Coming of Age
- Depression for Teens
- Teen Suicide
- Authors
- Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Published
- September 6, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Coming of Age