Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa

Scelsa delivers a coming of age at once achingly moving and softly poetic told from the perspectives of her three MCs. Let me be the first to say that this is a novel-if not the novel-champions of the We Need Diverse Books campaign should be talking about. I received a review copy from the author which in no way swayed my opinion about the work.Īs eloquent as it is heartfelt, Fans of the Impossible Life takes storytelling to a higher class and diversity higher still. Even as life in his foster home starts to take its toll, Sebby and Mira together craft a world of magic rituals and impromptu road trips, designed to fix the broken parts of their lives.Īs Jeremy finds himself drawn into Sebby and Mira’s world, he begins to understand the secrets that they hide in order to protect themselves, to keep each other safe from those who don’t understand their quest to live for the impossible. SEBBY, Mira’s gay best friend, seems to carry sunlight around him. When he sees Sebby for the first time across the school lawn, it’s as if he’s been expecting him. JEREMY is the painfully shy art nerd at Saint Francis who’s been in self-imposed isolation after an incident that ruined his last year of school. She promised her parents she would at least try to pretend that she could act like a functioning human this time, not a girl who can’t get out of bed for days on end, who only feels awake when she’s with Sebby. MIRA is starting over at Saint Francis Prep. Goodreads | Amazon | The Book Depository | Fully Booked Other classifications: Depression and Mental Illness, LGBTQIA, Young Adult

Genre: Fiction- Coming of Age, Contemporary, Realistic

Source: Gifted by the author (thank you so much Kate!) Publication: September 8th 2015 by Balzer + Bray/HarperTeen

Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa