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About The Book:
Title: WILDER
Author: Andrew Simonet
Pub. Date: November 13, 2018
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook
Pages: 320
I met Melissa in the rubber room,
a.k.a. in-school suspension. And that’s not her real name.
She had secrets, I had enemies.
“People are either useful or
dangerous,” she said. “One or the other.”
“Which one am I?” I said.
“You’re both.”
Meili was right. (That’s her real
name.)
You can solve a lot of problems if
you don’t mind getting hurt.
Jason Wilder is in permanent
in-school suspension for fighting. Meili Wen gets there by breaking a girl’s
finger. Jason and Meili don’t just connect; they collide. Two people who would
never cross paths―outsiders from radically different backgrounds―they form an
exhiliarating, unpredictable bond. When circumstances push, they push back.
There’s no plan. And there’s no stopping.
"I am so crap. How can you stand
being with me? Don’t answer that or I will crash this thing with both of us on
it, swear to god, are you ready?”
Yes. No. Didn’t matter.
I reached both arms around Meili’s
waist as we zoomed down the hill.
About Andrew:
I am a
writer and choreographer in Philadelphia. I am interested in messy, complex
humans colliding with rigid systems. I am interested in how unequal everything
is, and the stories we tell ourselves about that. I am interested in the
stories men tell ourselves about everything. I am interested in what bodies
know that brains don't. I think pretty is the enemy of beautiful.
My debut
young adult novel, Wilder, will be published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in
November 2018. I am currently writing a sequel.
I was a
founding Co-Director of Philadelphia's Headlong Dance Theater from 1993-2013.
We made raucous performance works.
I am an
activist and organizer for artists having sustainable lives. I founded Artists
U (programs in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and South Carolina) and wrote Making
Your Life as an Artist.
Career
stuff: my creative work has been supported by the Creative Capital Foundation,
The NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The New England
Foundation for the Arts, Yaddo, and Ucross. I received a Pew Fellowship in the
Arts, an Independence Fellowship in the Arts, and a Bessie for Choreography at
the New York Dance and Performance Awards.
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Tour Schedule:
Week Two:
11/19/2018- BookHounds- Interview
11/20/2018- Do
You Dog-ear?- Review
11/21/2018- The Desert Bibliophile- Review
11/22/2018- Two
points of interest- Review
11/23/2018- Oh Hey!
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