The Truth of Right Now
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About the Author
Kara Lee Corthron lives and writes in New York City. She’s written many plays that have been performed around the US, including AliceGraceAnon, Welcome to Fear City, Listen for the Light, and Holly Down in Heaven, which won her the Princess Grace Award (and a dance with Prince Albert II of Monaco). The Truth of Right Now is her first novel.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Corthron, Kara Lee, author.
Title: The truth of right now / Kara Lee Corthron.
Description: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | New York : Simon Pulse, 2017. |
Summary: “A heart-wrenching debut novel about relationships in its many forms—families, friendships, romance—and how Lily and Dari, coming from different backgrounds and different worlds, strive to find a connection through their differences as they fight against their own individual pasts”— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016018605 |
ISBN 9781481459471 (hc) | ISBN 9781481459495 (eBook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Friendship—Fiction. | Love—Fiction. | Family life—Fiction. |
BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism. |
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Dating & Sex. |
JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Issues).
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.C673 Tr 2017 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016018605