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Influenced by Judy Blume’s Forever and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, this novel that Andrew Smith calls “beautiful, charming, [and] exquisitely created” is a fresh classic about teenage interactions, self-acceptance-and what goes on when the wall space we build start decreasing. A Kirkus Greatest Publication of 2017!

Adam Thorn doesn’t find out it yet, but today changes his life.

Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant ultimatum from his boss, and his own unrequited love for his sort-of ex, Enzo, about Release it seems as though Adam’s life is falling apart. At least he has two different people to keep him sane: his new boyfriend (he will love Linus, doesn’t he?) and his best friend, Angela.

But the whole day, old recollections and new heartaches come crashing together, throwing Adam’s existence into chaos. The bindings of his globe are coming untied one at a time; yet regardless of everything he has to let go, he might also find independence in the discharge.

From the New York Times bestselling writer of A Monster Calls comes a natural, darkly funny, and deeply affecting story about the courage it requires to live your truth.