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Package includes:
- Award-winning, star-reviewed novel, Promising Young Man by Elias Axel
- Themed gift bag, tissue, bookmark, jumbo paperclip & blank notecard with envelope
- A small drawstring bag containing several inspirational stickers and retro candies
About the book
Set in Evanston, by a local author, Promising Young Man by Elias Axel is Contemporary Intergenerational literary fiction with elements of dark humor that BookLife Reviews calls deeply relatable.
Oscar Danielsson is eighteen, brilliantly ADHD, and about to ruin his life—again.
He looks like a promise waiting to be kept. His biggest fear is everyone discovering he's not what they expect at all. Between his spectacular mistakes, self-medicating, and overwhelming existential dread, hiding in his room feels safe, even if it means blowing high school graduation.
One hazy mistake too many launches Oscar on a mysterious cross-country road trip with his free-wheeling Grammy, who's done playing by the rules. Leaving behind his girl crush, beloved dog, and comforting vices is torture. But Grammy has a secret that changes everything—and Oscar discovers one of his own.
Oscar is the defiant anti-hero you can't stop rooting for. Grammy's his unlikely wingman. Together they're learning they're enough.
"You'll hate yourself for putting it down to go to bed, but you'll remind yourself that you're trying to make it last." —Dr. Moses Altsech, University of Wisconsin–Madison
"At times funny, at times raw, at times so poignant you'll find yourself tearing up... It's a story filled with wrong choices and thwarted dreams but also hope, resiliency, and redemption." —Maggie Smith, award-winning author of Truth and Other Lies and Blindspot
"I love this book." —Jill Wine-Banks, author The Watergate Girl and television legal analyst
Perfect for readers who loved: A Man Called Ove, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, I'll Give You the Sun, or All the Bright Places.
"(Henry Fielding's) Tom Jones suggested that the world, no matter how messy, ultimately has answers. Promising Young Man does the same." —Windy City Reviews Recommended
