Slingshot by Helnwein, Mercedes

Slingshot

Helnwein debuts in striking fashion... The writing, especially the dialogue, is magnetic, honest, and brimming with caustic...
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Author: Mercedes Helnwein
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Language: English
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Slingshot by Helnwein, Mercedes

Slingshot

$265.05

Slingshot

$265.05
Author: Mercedes Helnwein
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Helnwein debuts in striking fashion... The writing, especially the dialogue, is magnetic, honest, and brimming with caustic wit... [an] enrapturing take on the intense highs and lows of teenage love. --Booklist (Starred Review)

Wildly real and bursting with all the romance and pain of coming into oneself. --Kirkus (Starred Review)

Helnwein frankly conveys the joy, fear, and awkwardness of an all-consuming first love, poignantly depicting Gracie's growth: particularly the hard-won knowledge that she can exist 'just by the sheer force of herself, ' and the grace she learns to show herself and others. --Publishers Weekly

One of Eight 2021 YA Books To TBR ASAP --BookRiot

Mercedes Helnwein's Slingshot is an exciting debut contemporary young adult novel perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell and Mary H. K. Choi

I didn't think it was going to be anything like this when I finally fell in love. I thought it was going to be pretty simple. Like, I'd love someone and they'd love me. I thought that's the way it worked."

Grace Welles is stuck at a third-tier boarding school in the swamps of Florida, where her method of survival is a strict, self-imposed loneliness. And it works. Her crap attitude keeps people away because without friends, there are fewer to lose.

But when she accidentally saves the new kid, Wade Scholfield, from being beaten up, everything about her precariously balanced loner world collapses and, in order to find her footing again, she has no choice but to discover a completely new way to exist.

Because with Wade around, school rules are optional, weird is okay, and conversations about wormholes can lead to make-out sessions that disrupt any logical stream of thought. Nothing's perfect, but that's not the point. When they're together everything seems uncomplicated in a way that Grace knows is not possible.

Except it is.

So why does Grace crush Wade's heart into a million pieces?

Acidly funny and compulsive readable, this debut is a story about two people finding each other and then screwing it all up. See also: soulmate, stupidity, sex, friendship, bad poetry, very bad decisions and all the indignities of being in love for the first time.

Author: Mercedes Helnwein
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Published: 04/27/2021
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781250253002
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 12/01/2020 pg. 101
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 04/05/2021
Booklist 04/01/2021 pg. 62

About the Author
Mercedes Helnwein is a visual artist and writer. She was born in Vienna, Austria, and grew up in Germany, Ireland, and partially the US and the UK. Instead of going to college she moved to L.A. where she began putting on art shows with her friends and selling her drawings. Her obsession with writing began at age ten when she wrote her first short story for a school assignment - The Celery Stick Who Became President. She currently lives and works in L.A. and Ireland.

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