This Is the Part Where You Laugh by Peter Brown Hoffmeister

This Is the Part Where You Laugh

Peter Brown Hoffmeister

Random House Children's Books · Print & ebook · May 17, 2016

A Young Adult pick for readers exploring This Is the Part Where You Laugh.

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Who it’s for
A bruised, funny coming-of-age story where basketball, first love, and friendship meet hard-won persistence.
Themes
Friendship, Growing up, Perseverance through adversity
Genres
Basketball, Funny YA, Friendship for Teens

About this book

"So real it hurts."—David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of Mosquitoland. A summer of basketball, first love, and the friends who've got your back when life gets crazy, set in a trailer park in small town America. Travis never gives up. Not when his mom takes off. Not when he gets suspended from basketball. Not when he cracks four ribs jumping off a bridge to impress a girl.

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Not when he and his best friend Creature get into trouble deeper than they know how to handle. From acclaimed author Peter Brown Hoffmeister comes a painfully-funny, sometimes-crushing story of growing up, making mistakes, and pressing on, against the odds. "In my mind the best storytellers walk that high tight wire between tragedy and comedy. This Is the Part Where You Laugh is exactly the part where you laugh. And ache. This is a really good book!"—Chris Crutcher "A courageous novel. Incandescent and unflinching." —Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King "A raw offbeat novel with an abundance of honesty and heart." —Publishers Weekly, starred review "Hoffmeister crushes it. There is blood and truth on every page." —Estelle Laure, author of This Raging Light

Laugh, Then Ache

A bruised, funny coming-of-age story where basketball, first love, and friendship meet hard-won persistence.

Come here for

  • Small-town summer entangled with basketball and first love
  • A best-friend bond tested by trouble

Expect

  • Painfully funny moments alongside real heartache
  • A story about mistakes and pressing on

Where it sits

Friendship for Teens68%
Funny YA60%
Basketball53%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Class & Inequality for Teens
  • Addiction & Substance Use for Teens
  • Basketball
Authors
Peter Brown Hoffmeister
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Published
May 17, 2016
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Friendship · Growing up · Perseverance through adversity
Reading lane
Class & Inequality for Teens