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Stepping Off

by Jordan Sonnenblick

Two worlds, one changing family

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Two worlds, one changing family

Set between New York City and a Pennsylvania vacation-home community, the novel follows Jesse Dienstag as he tries to keep those parts of his life separate. On the verge of junior year, he is torn between two best friends he loves, while growing silence between his parents unsettles the family life he has counted on. The story then reaches March 2020, when the COVID shutdown in New York and his mother’s departure from his father bring Jesse’s two worlds into collision. The setup connects adolescent love and divided loyalties with family upheaval and the disruption of a familiar routine.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in stories about friendship and romantic feelings.
  • Readers seeking young adult fiction centered on parental separation and family change.
  • Readers interested in stories set across New York City and a Pennsylvania vacation community during the onset of COVID shutdowns.

Themes

Friendship and romantic loveParental separationFamily changeLife across two settingsCOVID-19 disruption

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Book overview

Jesse has two best friends. He's in love with both of them.

 

Jesse Dienstag's favorite sweatshirt says, "The real world isn't real." That's the slogan of the vacation-home community in Pennsylvania where his family has always spent every vacation and weekend for as long as he can remember. In the summer of 2019, as Jesse is about to enter his junior year of high school in New York City, he desperately wants to believe the slogan is true. For one thing, the two girls he loves -- equally and desperately -- are in Pennsylvania, and all the stresses and pressures of his daily life and school are in New York.

But when his parents stop talking to each other, it gets harder and harder for Jesse to maintain his dream life in Pennsylvania. And when Covid shuts New York City down in March 2020, just days after Jesse's mother leaves his father, Jesse's worlds collide.

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