Vanilla

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SKU: 9781338100921
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By Billy Merrell

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Vanilla by Billy Merrell is a young adult novel that explores the evolving relationship between two boys, Vanilla and Hunter, as they grow up and confront challenges regarding identity, societal expectations, and love. Set against the backdrop of high school life, the story delves into themes of self-discovery and the complexities of navigating an evolving friendship that challenges their understanding of romance and identity.
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This compelling tale explores first love, friendship, and self-discovery with a focus on LGBTQ+ themes, presenting its characters in situations that are relatable and poignant. It uses a poetic narrative style, making it an enticing read for those who appreciate heartfelt storytelling about the complexities of adolescence and identity.

In this raw novel written in verse, Vanilla and Hunter have been dating since seventh grade. They came out together, navigated middle school together, and became that couple in high school that everyone always sees as a couple. But as their relationship deepens, some cracks begin to show. Falling in love is hard. Staying in love is harder.

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Vanilla tells the story of Hunter and Van, who become boyfriends before they're even teenagers, and remain a couple even when adolescence intervenes. However, in high school, conflict arises—mostly because Hunter is much more comfortable with the sex part of sexual identity.

As the two boys start to realise that loving someone doesn't guarantee they will always be with you, they find out more about their own identities. This touching narrative is told in verse poems.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781338100921

Publisher: Scholastic US

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 November 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Scholastic US

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 29.0mm

Width: 149.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 320

Collections

Billy Merrell Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fiction Young Adult

About the Author

Billy Merrell is the author of Talking in the Dark, a poetry memoir published when he was twenty-one, and is the co-editor (with David Levithan) of The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities, which received a Lambda Literary Award. Merrell is also a contributor to the New York Times-bestselling series Spirit Animals, and has published fiction, poetry, and translations in various journals and anthologies. Born in 1982, he grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, and received his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his husband, author Nico Medina.