[I’ve got some
very talented friends and colleagues. So for this
year’s annual Beach Reads series, I wanted to highlight works by friends
old and new and colleagues at FSU (I’m a poet and I don’t know it!). Leading up
to one of my favorite crowd-sourced posts of the year, so make sure to share
your Beach Read nominations, please!]
I met Tammar Laufer
at a multi-family dinner right before the start of 8th grade, and we
were pretty close for the next few years. College took us in separate
directions as it tends to, but I distinctly remember getting together to
exchange short stories the summer after our first years, and being blown away
by Tammar’s story about a college student studying astronomy. I’m pretty sure
that story eventually became a starting point for Light Years (2005),
the first of Tammar (who publishes as
Tammar Stein)’s now six acclaimed and award-winning young adult novels. All
of them seem well worth your time, on or off the beach, and they occupy
different genre niches so you’re likely to find one that hits your sweet spot; I’m
particularly drawn by its description to High Dive (2008), which
looks to be a unique exploration of multi-generational family histories,
cultures, and identities through the genre of a road trip novel. In any case, I’m
proud to say I knew this award-winning YA novelist back in the day, and would
be proud to see her books on the beach this summer!
Last Beach Read
tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What are you
bringing to the beach this year or would you recommend we bring?
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