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Fangirl

  • 443 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2013
  • 8 editions

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1 About this book

Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan... But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving. Reading. Rereading.

Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere. Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to. Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates.

Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words... And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

  • Coming of age
  • Young adult fiction, romance
  • Authorship
  • Young adult fiction
  • Girls & Women
  • Fathers and daughters
  • Twins
  • Siblings

2 About Rainbow Rowell

Born 1973

Rainbow Rowell (born February 24, 1973) is an American author known for young adult and adult contemporary novels. Her young adult novels Eleanor & Park (2012), Fangirl (2013), and Carry On (2015) have been subjects of critical acclaim. She was the writer of the 2017 revival of Marvel Comics' Runaways and for She-Hulk from 2022 to 2024.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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