Jean

JeanSet over one hot summer, a startlingly assured debut about the kinds of love that break us and make us whole. Seventeen year old Jean, a troubled Jewish boy caught in the countercultural swirl of 1970s London, arrives at Compton Manor, a rural alternative boarding school for boys with problems. Dyslexic, antisocial, and prone to violent outbursts, Jean has never made friends easily and school has never been a place of safety or enjoyment. Compton

or maybe she's just the screw-up her family thinks she is

and her present life inside the convent

life in Elvis’s mansion looked glamorous and enviable

and the very notion of role models

Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous

Rosen and to depend on the sessions and the prescribed nightly phone calls with various group members

The Daily Mail

a pregnant young widow

Now Lara Jean’s the one who’ll be graduating high school and leaving for college and leaving her family—and possibly the boy she loves—behind

only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck

After an accident that nearly kills her

And she deploys prose to match