Description

From one of the brightest and most acclaimed new lights in YA fiction, a fantastic new novel about a bi Black boy finding first love and facing the return of the mother who abandoned his preacher family when he was nine.

Theres always been a hole in Gios life. Not because hes into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gios life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her and now, just as hes started to get his life together, shes back.

Its hard for Gio to know what to do. Can he forgive her like she wants to be forgiven? Or should he tell her she lost her chance to be in his life? Complicating things further, Gios started to hang out with David, a new guy on the basketball team. Are they friends? More than friends? At first, Gios not sure especially because hes not sure what he wants from anyone right now.

There are no easy answers to love whether its family love or friend love or romantic love. In Things We Couldnt Say, Jay Coles, acclaimed author of Tyler Johnson Was Here, shows us a guy trying to navigate love in all its ambiguity hoping at the other end hell be able to figure out who is and who he should be.

Author: Jay Coles
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 10/04/2022
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781338734195
Language: English