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Going Bicoastal

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A queer Sliding Doors rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (and the girl she's always wanted) or LA with her estranged mom (and the guy she never saw coming).

Natalya Fox has twenty-hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home in NYC for the summer with her dad (and finally screw up the courage to talk to the girl she's been crushing on), or spend it with her basically estranged mom in LA (knowing this is the best chance she has to fix their relationship, if she even wants to.) (Does she want to?)


How's a girl supposed to choose?


She can't, and so both summers play out in alternating timelines - one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the girl she's always wanted. And one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the guy she never saw coming.


In Dahlia Adler's Going Bicoastal, there's more than one path to happily ever after.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 17, 2023
      White, Jewish 17-year-old Natalya Fox must make what she feels is an impossible decision in this summery, Sliding Doors–inspired rom-com about risk-taking and second chances. Nat’s relationship with her mother has been strained for three years, ever since her mom moved from New York to California to pursue a life-changing career opportunity. But when her mom offers Nat a summer internship, she’s torn between going to L.A. to patch up their relationship and staying with her dad in N.Y.C., where she’s been attempting to drum up the courage to make a move on the cute redheaded girl she keeps seeing around the Upper West Side. Adler (Home Field Advantage) forgoes forcing Nat to make a choice by structuring the book across two simultaneously occurring timelines. Instead, alternating chapters chronicle Nat’s life in L.A., where she and her fellow intern—a frustratingly charming boy—bicker constantly, and in New York, where she learns that the redhead is cooler than Nat imagined. Though the dual story lines occasionally rehash the same material, leading to few surprises, Adler’s enticing prose teems with a vibrancy born of intimately realized bicoastal settings and titillating romantic possibility. Ages 13–up. Agent: Patricia Nelson, Marsal Lyon Literary.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Mara Wilson is Jewish, bisexual, and bicoastal--just like the main character in this YA rom-com, Natalya Fox. Natalya must decide between a summer with her mom in Los Angeles, interning alongside a cute boy, or staying in New York with her dad and finally talking to the redheaded girl she's been crushing on. What if she does both? Chapters shift between these alternating choices to see how her summer would turn out in each scenario. Even though Wilson solidifies the characters' voices in the first chapter, the large cast and continual shifts in setting can still be disorienting for the listener. Nonetheless, Wilson matches the energy of a teen and maneuvers smoothly through the many Yiddish words and foods from various cultures. S.S. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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