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How You Come Back

by Chelsea Laine Wells

How You Come Back

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How You Come Back

Set around Thanksgiving break, the novel begins with Sunny fleeing a teacher’s classroom after an unwanted touch. The incident sets off upheaval in her life, while her attention turns to her estranged, drug-addicted mother and the questions surrounding their separation. With her best friend Gracie, Sunny plans to find her mother. The narrative brings together sexual abuse, family estrangement, and the search for answers, tracing Sunny’s movement through trauma toward the possibility of healing and love.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in fiction addressing sexual abuse and its aftermath.
  • Readers seeking stories about family estrangement and a search for answers.
  • Readers interested in friendship as part of a character’s effort to navigate trauma.

Themes

Sexual abuse and traumaFamily estrangementFriendshipHealing and hopeSearching for answers

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Book overview

On the evening before Thanksgiving break, Sunny finds herself in the classroom of a teacher every girl knows better than to be alone with. With the pressure of his palm seared into her thigh, she slams through the school doors into the autumn cold and flees to the relative safety of her broken home, setting off a chain of events that upends her life. With every emotional wound unraveling inside her, Sunny fixates on her estranged drug-addicted mother and forms a plan with her unshakeable best friend, Gracie, to track her down. A quest for answers, for healing, for love, How You Come Back navigates the darkness of trauma, and the flickering hope that can find the way forward.

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