More Happy Than Not

By Adam Silvera,

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Book description

A special Deluxe Edition of Adam Silvera’s groundbreaking debut featuring an introduction by Angie Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give; a new final chapter, "More Happy Ending"; and an afterword about where it all began.
 
In his twisty, heartbreaking, profoundly moving New York Times bestselling…

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Why read it?

1 author picked More Happy Than Not as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This novel, often pitched as a gay YA Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (one of my favorite movies), showed a younger me that my style of writing, darkly humorous and contemplative, belonged on a bookstore or library shelf where a teen who needed it could find it.

The book asks a lot of important questions and, by the end, answers them with devastating yet uplifting resonance.

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