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Building You Up: The Novel & Soundtrack

by Alexandra Aller

A shared album, four teenagers

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A shared album, four teenagers

Set in Long Island’s pastel suburbs, the novel brings four teenagers together through a musical album and their experiences of loss and grief. Their lives also involve the pressures and choices of high school, college applications, parties, and young love. As a secret surfaces, those strands converge around the consequences facing the group. The soundtrack is part of the book’s framing, linking music with the characters’ shared struggles.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in stories about adolescence and friendship.
  • Readers drawn to fiction that connects music with grief, school pressures, and young love.

Themes

Music and connectionLoss and griefAdolescence and transitionSecrets and consequences

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Book overview

"If Perks of Being a Wallflower had its own soundtrack." - V Magazine

Set in the pastel suburbs of Long Island, four teenagers are drawn together because of one musical album and the invisible magnetism of their shared struggles around loss and grief. As they try to balance high school, college applications, partying, and young love - one secret finally come to the surface, jeopardizing all of their futures and forcing them to face reality.
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