Agent: Kerry Sparks, Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency. A compelling and beautiful story about a girl who learns to live from a boy whos drawn to death. The journey to, through, and past tragedy is romantic and heartbreaking, as characters and readers confront darkness, joy, and the possibilities-and limits-of love in the face of mental illness. All the Bright Places Paperback 8 January 2015 by Jennifer Niven (Author) 10,436 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback Now a major Netflix film starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith. In her YA debut, adult author Niven ( Velva Jean Learns to Drive) creates a romance so fresh and funny that it seems like it could save Finch she also makes something she foreshadows from the first line surprising. Violet is equally smart, and as they traverse Indiana for a geography project, looking for “wonders,” they flirt, argue, admit dark secrets, and fall in love. While Finch, aka “Theodore Freak,” is a marginal presence in their high school, he’s smart and handsome-a musician who, readers gradually realize, suffers from undiagnosed manic depression. Finch thinks about suicide every day Violet was happy until her sister died in a car crash. It’s more dark-cute than meet-cute, which also describes the book. When the 200 activists and farm workers got there, the ranch was. Seniors Theodore Finch and Violet Markey run into each other on their school bell tower, contemplating what it would be like to jump. They arrived just before midnight, carrying machetes and hoes, hammers and sickles, with plans to seize the land.
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