What We Left Behind
An Emotional Young Adult Novel
Harlequin · Print & ebook · September 6, 2016
From the critically acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves comes an emotional, empowering story of what happens when love may not be enough to conquer all Toni and Gretchen are the couple everyone envied in high school.
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- Who it’s for
- A tender coming-of-age read about growing into yourself while trying to hold on to love.
- Genres
- YA Transgender, YA Romance - LGBTQ+, Coming of Age
- Published
- Harlequin, September 6, 2016
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From the critically acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves comes an emotional, empowering story of what happens when love may not be enough to conquer all Toni and Gretchen are the couple everyone envied in high school. When they separate for their first year at collegeToni to Harvard and Gretchen to NYUthey're sure they'll be fine. Where other long-distance relationships have fallen apart, theirs is bound to stay rock-solid.
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The reality of being apart, though, is very different than they expected. Toni, who identifies as genderqueer, meets a group of transgender upperclassmen and immediately finds a sense of belonging that has always been missing, but Gretchen struggles to remember who she is outside their relationship. As distance and Toni's shifting gender identity begin to wear on their relationship, the couple must decidehave they grown apart for good, or is love enough to keep them together?
Love in Transition
A tender coming-of-age read about growing into yourself while trying to hold on to love.
Come here for
- A first-love story tested by distance and change
- Questions of belonging and identity within a relationship
Expect
- Emotional relationship tensions, not easy answers
- A close look at how identity can reshape a couple
Where it sits
| YA Transgender | 80% |
|---|---|
| YA Romance - LGBTQ+ | 75% |
| Coming of Age | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Coming of Age
- YA LGBTQ+
- YA Transgender
- Contemporary YA Romance
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- College & Uni YA
- Dating & Sex for Teens
- Emotions & Feelings for Teens
- Friendship for Teens
- Authors
- Robin Talley
- Publisher
- Harlequin
- Published
- September 6, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Coming of Age