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    Here We Are Now
    Here We Are Now
    Here We Are Now
    Audiobook6 hours

    Here We Are Now

    Written by Jasmine Warga

    Narrated by Soneela Nankani

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    A book about love, loss, and the power of music, perfect for fans of Nick Hornby and Fangirl. 

    Taliah Sahar Abdallat lives and breathes music. Songs have always helped Tal ease the pain of never having known her father. Her mother, born in Jordan and very secretive about her past, won’t say a word about who her dad really was. But when Tal finds a shoebox full of old letters from Julian Oliver—yes, the indie rock star Julian Oliver—she begins to piece the story together.

    She writes to Julian, but after three years of radio silence, she’s given up hope. Then one day, completely out of the blue, Julian shows up at her doorstep, and Tal doesn’t know whether to be furious or to throw herself into his arms. Before she can decide, he asks her to go on a trip with him to meet her long-estranged family and to say good-bye to his father, her grandfather, who is dying.

    Getting to know your father after sixteen years of estrangement doesn’t happen in one car ride. But as Tal spends more time with Julian and his family, she begins to untangle her parents’ secret past, and discovers a part of herself she never recognized before.

    By the acclaimed author of My Heart and Other Black Holes, this is an intergenerational story of family and legacy and the way love informs both of those things. It’s about secrets and the debt of silence. It’s about the power of songs. And most of all, it’s about learning how to say hello. And good-bye.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 7, 2017
    ISBN9780062689214
    Author

    Jasmine Warga

    Jasmine Warga is the New York Times bestselling author of Other Words for Home, a Newbery Honor Book and a Walter Honor Book for Younger Readers; The Shape of Thunder; and A Rover’s Story. Her teen books, Here We Are Now and My Heart and Other Black Holes, have been translated into over twenty-five languages. She lives in the Chicago area with her family. You can visit Jasmine online at jasminewarga.com.

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    • 3/5
      I love the diversity in this book. The romance just felt flat and so insta-love for me.
    • 3/5
      I loved My Heart and Other Black Holes for how real it was regarding mental health and suicide, which is so necessary in YA. In this book, Taliah has never known her father, but some mementos her mother kept made Taliah suspect that her dad was rock star Julian Oliver. After writing letters to him for years, he finally comes knocking on her door - and Taliah doesn’t know what to do. This book has beautiful descriptions of music and how it can make you feel, and that’s what kept me going. The story wasn’t as compelling as Warga’s first book, but it worked and was unique.