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The Novel That Understands That the Hardest Part of Becoming Famous Is Figuring Out Whether You Actually Want To

The Novel That Understands That the Hardest Part of Becoming Famous Is Figuring Out Whether You Actually Want To

By: Andrew Vespa Most YA novels about fame treat the desire for it as a given, a fixed star that the protagonist navigates toward across the full length of the story, with the drama arising from the obstacles that appear between the wanting and the getting. Michele Kwasniewski is more interested in the more honest and more complicated version of the story, in which the desire itself is not entirely the protagonist’s own and the

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