Book overview
HBO's Insecure meets Dazed and Confused in this messy, tender YA novel about a friendship breakup, set against the backdrop of a chaotic night at a music festival, from rising talent Tracy Badua.
Jana Rubio and her best friend, Maddy Parsons, have an epic senior year finale queued up: catching their favorite band at the Orchards, an outdoor music festival a two-hour drive away. When a blowup over Maddy's time-sucking boyfriend exposes a rift that may have already been growing between them, Jana calls off their joint trip and gets a lift to the festival from her church friend Nathan...only to realize Maddy and her boyfriend are along for the ride, too.
All Jana wants is to enjoy the concert and get home as soon as possible. But then Nathan loses his car keys crowd-surfing, and it's up to Jana and Maddy to find them. As they navigate stolen phones and missing friends, scale Ferris wheels and crash parties, the two of them are forced to reckon with the biggest obstacle of all: repairing their friendship.
Will Jana and Maddy find their way home--and also back to each other?
- Road Trip Gone Wrong: What starts as a two-hour drive to the Orchards music festival ends in a chaotic mess of lost keys, stolen phones, and crashed parties.
- Forced Proximity: After Nathan loses the car keys crowd-surfing, ex-best friends Jana and Maddy are stuck together and forced to confront what tore them apart.
- YA Coming of Age: A funny and heartfelt story about growing up, growing apart, and figuring out if you can find your way back to the person who knows you best.
- Best Friend Drama: Navigating a messy friendship breakup is hard enough without having to scale a Ferris wheel just to get cell service.
