The JJJ Book Club has an exclusive excerpt from Carrie Firestone‘s new novel The Unlikelies that you have to check out!
Set in the Hamptons during summer break – AKA the perfect summer read – The Unlikelies follows five teens as they form an unlikely clique and embark on a summer of vigilante good samaritanism.
Think The Breakfast Club meets The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks.
The Unlikelies hits shelves on June 6.
Check out the excerpt here:
WHEN THEY FINALLY released me, I slumped in the wheelchair while an aide paraded me through the brightly lit hallways and into an elevator, where a couple tried not to stare. Mom carried my plastic breathing thing and my blood-spattered shoes. Dad ran ahead to get the car, which my grandmothers had already filled with the get-well flowers.
The wait in front of the hospital, in the heat and bright sunshine, made me nauseated. I started to dry heave, and the guy pushing the wheelchair handed me a pink barf bucket. I had never felt so awful.
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