Would u read?
I’m like 140+ pages in already heh…
- A book from 3 perspectives taking place in 1999 New York. Alternating perspectives like chapter 1 is character a, 2 is b, 3 is c, repeats. All 3 of them do not know each other until they connect at the end (the last chapter for each character)
- The story is about 3 teenagers who all have different struggles, whether it be mental, social, socioeconomic, or a combination of them.
- I’ll introduce the characters and their stories
- 1: Niven Cohen is a 17 year old Jewish boy who lives in immense poverty. He lives with his disabled father, who became disabled after a car crash that also killed his mother. Niven’s father cannot work due to this so Niven works a weekend job. One day at his job, a 6 year old girl named Noa comes and asks for food because her family is hungry and cannot afford it. Niven immediately builds a relationship with Noa and her family. However, Niven is also harassed at school. 4 boys, whom he calls “the beasts” physically hurt him at school, and Niven fears for his life every single day.
- 2: Parker Leung is a 17 year old girl whose life used to be very happy. However, about 3 years ago, the family was going to say their goodbyes to her older brother Luke for the next few months because he was moving into his Harvard dorm. Parker is about to open the car door when Luke puts his hand on the Handel and gestures for her to go in first, and they end up getting into a car crash with a drunk driver and Luke doesn’t make it. Parker’s parents cannot cope with the grief, so they take it out on her, and expect her to get perfect grades and she has to be the perfect daughter, but she’s never good enough, so her parents physically abuse her, and parker sh because of it. At school, she has a best friend almost like a sister, Serena, and a girl Katelyn joins their friend group after her friends ditched her at the beginning of the story. Parker is anxious every day and barely hanging on, and Serena is the only person who knows her struggles.
- 3. Miguel Romero is a 17 year old boy who lives with his abusive alcoholic father. One night, after his father has a massive like agression thing, Miguel decides he’s going to escape from home. He escapes and sneaks onto a bus that takes him to New York. He’s now homeless, but he meets a gang who steals and does bad things to get by, because they’re struggling like Miguel. Miguel joins but hates what he’s doing. Ngl I just started so idrk know what else to say lol
These characters all meet at the end after a massive tradgedy, and the book will end on a like not cliff hanger but like an emotional turmoil thingy.
Anyways would you read sorry for the tangent lol