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Jared Reck

    Jared Reck creëert verhalen die zich verdiepen in het complexe landschap van menselijke verbinding en liefde, waarbij hij deze thema's vaak verkent door middel van authentieke en ontroerende verhalen. Zijn schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een oprechte stem en een scherp vermogen om subtiele emotionele nuances vast te leggen die diep resoneren bij de lezers. Reck's werk onderzoekt regelmatig de reis van de adolescentie, de vorming van identiteit en de universele zoektocht naar ergens bijhoren in het hedendaagse leven. Zijn uitgebreide ervaring als opvoeder informeert diepgaand zijn begrip van jeugdige perspectieven en verrijkt zijn literaire inspanningen.

    Jared Reck
    A Short History of the Girl Next Door
    Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love
    • The future is anything but certain in this alternately funny and heartbreaking contemporary story about food trucks, festivals, and first loves.It's easy to look at high school senior Oscar Olsson and think: lost. He hates school, struggles to read, and wants nothing to do with college. But Oscar is anything but lost---he knows exactly what he wants and exactly how to get it. Oscar and Farfar, the Swedish grandfather who's raised him, run a food truck together selling rullekebab and munkar, and Oscar wants to finish school so he can focus on the food truck full-time.It's easy to look at Mary Louise (Lou for short) Messinger and think: driven. AP everything, valedictorian in her sights, and Ivy league college aspirations.When Lou hijacks Oscar's carefully crafted schedule of independent studies and blocks of time in the Culinary Lab, Oscar is roped into helping Lou complete her over-ambitious, resume-building service project-reducing food waste in Central Adams High School. While Lou stands to gain her Girl Scout Gold Award, Oscar will be faced with a mountain of uneaten school apples and countless hours with a girl he can't stand.With the finish line in sight, a relationship he never expected, and festival season about to begin (for good), the unthinkable happens, and Oscar's future is anything but certain.

      Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love2021
      4,2
    • A Short History of the Girl Next Door

      • 272bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      The unrequited love of the girl next door is the centerpiece of this fiercely funny, yet heart-breaking debut novel. Fifteen-year-old Matt Wainwright is in turmoil. He can’t tell his lifelong best friend, Tabby, how he really feels about her; his promising basketball skills are being overshadowed by his attitude on the court, and the only place he feels normal is in English class, where he can express his inner thoughts in quirky poems and essays. Matt is desperately hoping that Tabby will reciprocate his feelings; but then Tabby starts dating Liam Branson, senior basketball star and all-around great guy. Losing Tabby to Branson is bad enough; but, as Matt soon discovers, he’s close to losing everything that matters most to him.

      A Short History of the Girl Next Door2017
      3,8