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Don't Forget to Breathe

by Sara Waxelbaum

A senior-year collision of dance, music, and uncertainty

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A senior-year collision of dance, music, and uncertainty

Zoe has built her future around ballet, while Hanna’s frequent moves have taught her not to expect a lasting home. As their paths meet during senior year, both face questions about where they belong and what they want next. The romance is framed around first love and the risks of letting another person disrupt familiar plans. The description also foregrounds queer and neurodiverse experience, alongside Hanna’s family’s connection to Jewish faith. Dance, piano, relocation, and the pressure of choosing a future give the relationship its specific context.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in contemporary sapphic romance.
  • Readers looking for fiction that foregrounds queer and neurodiverse experience.
  • Readers interested in stories about dance, music, and uncertainty around the future.

Themes

First loveQueer and neurodiverse experienceBelonging and homeFear of choosing a futureFamily and faith

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Book overview

"Earnest, evocative, and unapologetically tender. Don't Forget to Breathe is the sort of love story that wears its heart on its sleeve." - Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon Vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Imogen, Obviously

Perfect for fans of Jennifer Dugan and Nina LaCour, this tender, contemporary sapphic romance follows a dancer and a musician who find themselves on a collision course that could change their lives forever.

Zoe's always had a plan. Ballet has been her past, present, and future for so long that she's never even considered otherwise. It's been the escape she's always needed. Yet when senior year arrives, it arrives with a feeling of uncertainty she never expected--and a paralyzing fear about choosing the wrong future.

Hanna's rarely stayed in a place longer than a year. The greatest consistency she has is her piano playing, and her dad diving back into his Jewish faith every time her mom leaves on assignment. So when her senior year begins with yet another move to a new school, she's not planning on putting down roots--she's learned that hard way how that ends.

But when the girls' paths collide, everything they thought they knew is turned upside down. Their relationship could change them each forever--if they have the courage to let their worlds fall apart.

An honest, messy, and very real approach to first love that focuses keenly on the queer and neurodiverse experience, Don't Forget to Breathe proves the power of overcoming fear to be wildly, truly yourself.
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