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Review: BETWEEN YOU AND ME by Marisa Calin

Aug 01, 2012 Leave a Comment ~ Written by E. Kristin Anderson

It’s easy take a gimmick and make a book out of it. It’s hard to make it work. Marisa Calin’s debut, BETWEEN YOU AND ME, is told in the form of a screen play. A screen play in first person that addresses the protagonist’s best friend only as “You.” And the best part is: it works.

High school theater student Phyre is thrilled for the new semester. And as soon as her new theater class starts, her whole world changes. At least that’s what it feels like. Their student teacher, Mia, is unlike anyone Phyre has ever met. And although she’s only dated boys before, Phyre soon finds herself not only intrigued by Mia, but infatuated. She’s thinking about her all the time — at home, hanging out at the coffee shop with her best friend, in class, and, of course, at the theater.

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Posted in books, lgbtq, reading, reviews, YA - Tagged Bloomsbury & Walker, Bloomsbury USA, Bloomsbury usa Childrens, Marisa Calin

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E. Kristin Anderson grew up in Westbrook, Maine and is a graduate of Connecticut College. She has a fancy diploma that says “B.A. in Classics,” which makes her sound smart but has not helped her get any jobs in Ancient Rome. Ms. Anderson is the co-editor of Dear Teen Me, an anthology based on the popular website. Her poetry has been published worldwide in many magazines and she is an assistant YA and Children’s editor at Hunger Mountain. Once upon a time she worked at The New Yorker. Look out for Ms. Anderson's work in the forthcoming anthology Coin Opera II, a collection of poems about video games from Sidekick Books and Futuredaze, an anthology of YA SciFi from Underwords. She now lives in Austin, TX and blogs at EKristinAnderson.com and MetreMaids.com. She is represented by Christina Hogrebe at the Jane Rotrosen Agency.