Then Everything Happens at Once
Then Everything Happens at Once by M-E Girard is a young adult fiction novel published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2023. This 432-page paperback presents an empowering, sex-positive coming-of-age story that follows Baylee, a teen navigating her first experiences with love and desire amid personal and societal challenges, including a pandemic. As she grapples with her self-image and her feelings for her best friend Freddie, Baylee also discovers a connection with Alex, a barista who appreciates her for who she is.
Readers will find a narrative that explores themes of romance, self-acceptance, and the complexities of relationships during formative years. Baylee’s journey is marked by her observations of her friends’ relationship dynamics, which inform her understanding of love and desire. This edition highlights the struggles and triumphs of a confident, fat girl learning to embrace herself while facing the chaotic realities of adolescence.
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From the Lambda Award-winning author of Girl Mans Up comes an empowering, sex-positive coming-of-age story about a teen exploring first love and desire as her rocky relationship with her own body and a pandemic threaten to sabotage everything. Perfect for fans of Fat Chance, Charlie Vega and Cool for the Summer. Now in paperback!
Baylee has never been kissed but she wants to do way more than that. She’s had a huge crush on her gorgeous best friend and neighbor, Freddie, for years, but since she doesn’t look like his usual type, the judgmental voice in her head tells her he’ll never see her as more than a friend. It feels like she’ll spend the rest of high school fantasizing on the sidelines while everyone else dates and hooks up.
Then Baylee meets Alex online and she starts to fall for this sweet, funny barista who likes her just as she is. It’s new, electric, and all-consuming to be around Alex. But when Freddie makes a move on Baylee and a virus shuts the world down, Baylee finds herself torn.
Everything is happening at once, and she is left navigating the messy waters of love and desire. It helps that she’s observed her friends’ relationship drama so she knows exactly what mistakes not to make . . . right?
This sophomore novel from M-E Girard centers a fat, confident girl going after what she wants and learning to love herself along the way.
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