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Wide Awake Now

by David Levithan
Max Meyers
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Every Day, this is a queer love story set against the backdrop of the 2024 presidential election, in a reimagining of David Levithan’s 2004 novel Wide Awake.
When David Levithan published Wide Awake in 2004, he set it in an imagined 2024, where a gay Jewish man had just been elected president of the United States, until a governor decides that some election results in his state are invalid, awarding crucial votes to the other candidate and his fellow party member. What follows is the story of teens Jimmy and Duncan as they explore their relationship, their politics, and their country.
In Wide Awake Now, David Levithan is flipping the script and rewriting Jimmy and Duncan’s story in the real 2024, rather than his imagined version. This is a protest novel for today.
Once again, David Levithan proves the critical importance of standing up for what you believe in and the cost of apathy in today’s political climate.

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  • Release date

    April 16, 2024

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593795026
      • File size: 191162 KB
      • Duration: 06:38:15

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Max Meyers radiates the tension that begins on Election Day 2024 in this charged and disquieting book. Duncan is a queer, Jewish teen, who, along with his first boyfriend, has helped elect the first gay, Jewish president. Duncan travels with a coalition of diverse campaign workers to take a stand in Kansas--a state that the opposition refuses to concede. Meyers conveys a palpable sense of anxiety, including Duncan's apprehensiveness with his new lover and the shared anxiety of a bus packed with united folks of various ages, races, sexual orientations, and religions--all heading to Kansas to stand with millions in demanding democracy. Rousing political speeches match the intensity of our current world. Though the story is didactic in parts, Meyers delivers that didacticism with passion. L.T. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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