Going Bicoastal

by Dahlia Adler

Hardcover, 2023

Status

Available

Call number

T F ADL

Publication

Wednesday Books (2023), 336 pages

Description

Told in alternating timelines, Jewish seventeen-year-old Natalya spends one summer in New York with her dad, trying to muster the courage to talk to her girl crush, and the other in Los Angeles with her estranged mom, going for a guy she never saw coming.

Barcode

7105

Awards

Sydney Taylor Book Award (Honor Book — Young Adult — 2024)
ALA Rainbow Book List (Selection — 2024)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 2024)

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User reviews

LibraryThing member bibliovermis
Oh, this was a lot of sweet YA romance fun. At a pivotal age for makign decisions about the future, a big choice of where to spend the summer can be followed along both options (ala Sliding Doors, or a way less melancholy and less sci-fi My Real Children) to two different, sweet romances. Both
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summers/romantic options/outcomes were so excellent I couldn't choose between them; in my mind the big decision of where to go for the summer sprang up alternate universes, Doctor Who style, so both can continue indefinitely in alternate timelines.
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LibraryThing member michelleannlib
It just didn't work in audio form. The changing scenes just were confusing, and the narrator didn't fit the work. Might work in book form better.

ISBN

1250871646 / 9781250871640
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