The Here and Now
Author: Ann Brashares
Expected Release Date: April 8, 2014
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Description:
Follow the rules. Remember what happened. Never fall in love.
Thrilling, exhilarating, haunting, and heartbreaking, The Here and Now is a twenty-first-century take on an impossible romance. Ann Brashares’ first novel for teens since The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is about a girl from the future who might be able to save the world . . . if she lets go of the one thing she’s found to hold on to.
Meet seventeen-year-old Prenna James, who immigrated to New York when she was twelve. Except Prenna didn’t come from a different country. She came from a different time—a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and leaving the world in ruins.
Prenna and the others who escaped to the present day must follow a strict set of rules: never reveal where they’re from, never interfere with history, and never, ever be intimate with anyone outside their community. Prenna does as she’s told, believing she can help prevent the plague that will one day ravage the earth. But everything changes when she falls for Ethan Jarves.
Thrilling, exhilarating, haunting, and heartbreaking, The Here and Now is a twenty-first-century take on an impossible romance. Ann Brashares’ first novel for teens since The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is about a girl from the future who might be able to save the world . . . if she lets go of the one thing she’s found to hold on to.
Meet seventeen-year-old Prenna James, who immigrated to New York when she was twelve. Except Prenna didn’t come from a different country. She came from a different time—a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and leaving the world in ruins.
Prenna and the others who escaped to the present day must follow a strict set of rules: never reveal where they’re from, never interfere with history, and never, ever be intimate with anyone outside their community. Prenna does as she’s told, believing she can help prevent the plague that will one day ravage the earth. But everything changes when she falls for Ethan Jarves.
More from the Random House Press Release:
New York, NY, August 20, 2013—Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, will publish
THE HERE AND NOW, a new novel by Ann Brashares, the #1 New York Times
bestselling author of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, on
April 8, 2014, it was announced today by Beverly Horowitz, Vice
President, Publisher, Delacorte Press.
THE HERE AND NOW jacket image was revealed today as well.
“THE HERE AND NOW
is unlike anything Ann Brashares has ever written, and at the same time
it’s classic Ann—with beautiful writing, powerful and memorable
characters, and the unforgettable themes of loss,
love, identity, and courage,” says Horowitz. “THE HERE AND NOW is a thrilling, intoxicating, and emotional novel from a master storyteller.”
In THE HERE AND NOW,
a teenage girl tries to blend in to a suburban community, knowing she’s
a potentially lethal threat to everyone she comes in contact with,
including the boy she loves. Exhilarating,
haunting, and heartbreaking, THE HERE AND NOW is a
twenty-first-century take on an impossible romance. A girl from the
future might be able to save the world . . . if she lets go of the one
thing she’s found to hold on to.
Horowitz acquired
world rights from Jennifer Rudolph Walsh at William Morris Endeavor, and
Brashares’s longtime editor, Executive Editor Wendy Loggia, is editing
the novel. Listening Library will simultaneously
publish the audio edition.
Ann Brashares’s beloved Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants novels were #1
New York Times, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and Book Sense
bestsellers, with sales of more than 9 million copies in the U.S. and
Canada. The series has earned the love of readers across the country and
around the world, and inspired the major motion
picture releases of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.
Ann Brashares is also the author of
3 Willows, The Last Summer (of You & Me), and My Name Is Memory. She lives in New York City with her husband and four children.
THE HERE AND NOW
By Ann Brashares
Delacorte Press | On sale April 8, 2014 | Ages 12 up
Hardcover: 978-0-385-73680-0 | $18.99 U.S. / $21.00 Can.
Ebook: 978-0-307-97615-4
Listening Library CD: 978-0-8041-2132-3 | $50.00 U.S. / $58.00 Can.
Listening Library Audio Download: 978-0-8041-2133-0 | $24.00 U.S. / $28.00 Can.
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