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How You Come Back by Chelsea Laine Wells

Synopsis:

On the evening before Thanksgiving break, Sunny finds herself in the classroom of a teacher every girl knows better than to be alone with. With the pressure of his palm seared into her thigh, she slams through the school doors into the autumn cold and flees to the relative safety of her broken home, setting off a chain of events that upends her life. With every emotional wound unraveling inside her, Sunny fixates on her estranged drug-addicted mother and forms a plan with her unshakeable best friend, Gracie, to track her down. A quest for answers, for healing, for love, How You Come Back navigates the darkness of trauma, and the flickering hope that can find the way forward.

Learn more about the author, Chelsea Laine Wells.

Praise

“In this masterful debut novel, Chelsea Lane Wells deftly unearths the fraught internal landscape of adolescence in glorious and compassionate detail…. By the end of the first chapter, Iโ€™d fallen in love. By the last chapter, I would fight and die for these characters.”
โ€” Christine Rice, author of Swarm Theory

How You Come Back is a live wire of a novel, beautiful and sparking, keeping you emotionally on your toes. I fell in love with the characters, wounds and scabs and all, and would follow them to the end of the earth. Chelsea Laine Wells is, truly, a one-in-a-million talent.”
โ€” Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother’s Lovers